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  • noun Plural form of undine.

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Examples

  • This focus upon the gondoliers (aka "undines") is where

    Anime Nano! 2010

  • They had fins and scales, so I guessed that made them undines.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • They had fins and scales, so I guessed that made them undines.

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • There were some suggested improvements, including building up the growing love between the plumber and the undine, mentioning earlier that undines are incurable romantics, and changing the plumber's ex (who shows up several times) into several separate exes to demonstrate the plumber's previous personal history.

    6/18/08: Taos Toolbox, days 10-11: Some have broken under the strain of it 2008

  • He'd thought all the river-folk, selkies and undines and water-sprites, were already safely gone, warned by Shalkan and the others who carried his message.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • "Selkies and undines live in the stream" and otters, too, of course, though they're not Otherfolk.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • Still " unicorns and sylphs and undines and dryads and Centaurs" what next?

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • Shalkan had spread his warnings far and wide, and the dryads, sylphs, undines, gnomes, sprites, brownies, pixies, and fauns had already begun to leave the Wildwood and the surrounding hills.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • The works of Paracelsus in the fifteenth century spoke of these beings and described them as "the sylphs of air, the salamanders of fire, the undines or nymphs of water, and the gnomes of the earth" Silver 35.

    Fairies elena maria vidal 2009

  • The works of Paracelsus in the fifteenth century spoke of these beings and described them as "the sylphs of air, the salamanders of fire, the undines or nymphs of water, and the gnomes of the earth" Silver 35.

    Archive 2009-05-01 elena maria vidal 2009

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