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Webster 1913 Edition
Mermaid
Mer′maid
,Noun.
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.
☞ Chaucer uses this word as equivalent to the siren of the ancients.
Mermaid fish
(Zool.)
the angel fish (
– Squatina
). Mermaid’s glove
(Zool.)
, a British branched sponge somewhat resembling a glove.
– Mermaid's head
(Zool.)
, 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
).Webster 1828 Edition
Mermaid
MER'MAID
,Noun.
Definition 2024
mermaid
mermaid
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Portrait of a mermaid.
Noun
mermaid (plural mermaids)
- A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish.
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mythological woman with a fish's tail
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