"nymphology" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1975, David O. Ross, Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry: Gallus Elegy and Rome, page 76:",
          "text": "Then comes the point of the warning itself, the first instance of Propertius' outlandish nymphology in this poem […]",
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          "ref": "1989, Frederic S. Colwell, Rivermen: A Romantic Iconography of the River and the Source, page 110:",
          "text": "His criticism, however peremptory, is a just pronouncement on most of these literary incursions into the pretty paganism of nymphology.",
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          "text": "[…] Boccaccio not only informs us about the nomenclature of nymphology, distinguishing Nereides, Naiades, Napeae, Anadriades, Hymnides and so forth […]",
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