Found 3 items, similar to mermaid.
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Definition: mermaid
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: mermaid
mermaid
n : half woman and half fish; lives in the sea
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Mermaid
Mermaid
\Mer"maid\, n. [AS. mere lake, sea. See
Mere lake, and
maid.]
A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the
upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a
sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.
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Note: Chaucer uses this word as equivalent to the siren of
the ancients.
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Mermaid fish (Zo["o]l.) the angel fish (
Squatina).
Mermaid's glove (Zo["o]l.), a British branched sponge
somewhat resembling a glove.
Mermaid's head (Zo["o]l.), a European spatangoid sea urchin
(
Echinocardium cordatum) having some resemblance to a
skull.
Mermaid weed (Bot.), an aquatic herb with dentate or
pectinate leaves (
Proserpinaca palustris and
Proserpinaca pectinacea).
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