lymph

• lymphe (rare or archaic)

From French lymphe, from Latin lympha (“water, water nymph”), from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “nymph”) (English nymph), of unknown origin.

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lymph (countable and uncountable, plural lymphs)

1. (obsolete, poetical) Pure water.
2. (physiology, immunology) A colourless, watery bodily fluid, carried by the lymphatic system, that consists mainly of white blood cells.
3. Discharge from a sore, inflammation etc.
   • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 268:

     She lay face-down, an infected puncture point on the inside of her thigh oozing a faint lymph.

• nymph