Nereid
['nɪərɪɪd]
Definition
(noun.) (Greek mythology) any of the 50 sea nymphs who were daughters of the sea god Nereus.
Edited by Lizzie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, who were attendants upon Neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish.
(n.) Any species of Nereis. The word is sometimes used for similar annelids of other families.
Checker: Patty
Definition
n. (Gr. myth.) a sea-nymph one of the daughters of the sea-god Nereus who attended Neptune riding on sea-horses: (zool.) a genus of marine worms like long myriapods.—ns. Nē′rēis a nereid; Nē′rēite a fossil annelid related to the nereids.
Edited by Adela
Examples
- I believe his mother was a Nereid and his father a hunter, for he was the offspring of earth and ocean—the consummate flower of both. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They are all human figures that wanton in the rocks--a crowd of foam-women--a band of white, evanescent Nereids. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Typed by Dewey