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mermaid


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  Note:  Chaucer  uses  this  word  as  equivalent  to  the  siren  of 
  the  ancients. 
 
  {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  {P. 
  pectinacea}). 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mermaid 
  n  :  half  woman  and  half  fish,  lives  in  the  sea 




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