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syrena — 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.
  • siren noun A device that produces a loud, piercing warning sound, or the sound itself.

Senses

syrena is used for these senses in English:

  • mermaid A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish.
  • merperson A mythological creature with a human upper half (head, arms, and torso) and a piscine lower half.
  • sea cow Any of several marine mammals of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong.

siren — full definition

  1. noun A device that produces a loud, piercing warning sound, or the sound itself.
  2. noun A dangerously alluring woman, from the mythological creatures said to lure sailors to their doom with song.

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