Nereis — meaning in English
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English meaning
- mermaid noun A legendary sea creature with the upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish.
Senses
Nereis is used for these senses in English:
- Nereid (Greek mythology) Any one of the fifty sea-nymphs who were daughters of the sea-god Nereus and attendants upon Poseidon (Neptune), and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes in human form and sometimes with the tail of a fish.
- Nereid (astronomy) One of the satellites of the planet Neptune.
- mermaid A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish.