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nereid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nereid \Ne"re*id\, n.; pl. E. Nereids, L. Nereides. [L. Nereis, -idis, Gr. Nhrei:`s Nhrhi:`s, Nhrhi:`dos, a daughter of Nereus, a nymph of the sea, fr. Nhrey`s Nereus, an ancient sea god; akin to nhro`s wet, Skr. n[=a]ra water, cf. Gr. na`ein to flow.]
(Class. Myth.) 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.
(Zo["o]l.) Any species of Nereis. The word is sometimes used for similar annelids of other families.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sea-nymph," 1510s, from Greek Nereis (genitive Nereidos), daughter of the ancient sea-god Nereus, whose name is related to naros "flowing, liquid, I flow" (see naiad).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Greek mythology English) One of 50 sea nymphs who were attendants upon Poseidon (Neptune), and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes in human form and sometimes with the tail of a fish. 2 (context zoology English) A worm of the genus ''Nereis'', having sharp retractable jaws and an annelid body.
Wikipedia
In Greek mythology, the Nereids ( ; Nereides, sg. Nereis) are sea nymphs (female spirits of sea waters), the 50 daughters of Nereus and Doris, sister to Nerites. They often accompany Poseidon, the god of the sea, and can be friendly and helpful to sailors, like the Argonauts in their search for the Golden Fleece.
Nereid is the third-largest moon of Neptune. It has a highly eccentric orbit. It was the second moon of Neptune to be discovered, by Gerard Kuiper in 1949.
A Nereid is a sea nymph in Greek mythology.
Nereid or Nereids may also refer to:
- Nereid (moon), the third-largest moon in the Neptune system
- Nereid (worm), a polychaete worm
- Nereids (organization), a fictional organization in the anime series Daphne in the Brilliant Blue
- The Nereids, a lost tragedy by the Greek playwright Aeschylus assigned by modern scholars to the trilogy the Achilleis
- Nereid Avenue (IRT White Plains Road Line), a station of the New York City Subway
- Nereid Avenue (also known as East 238th Street; McLean Avenue in Yonkers, and West 5th Street in Mount Vernon), a major street in the Wakefield section of The Bronx, New York City
- Nereid (Dungeons & Dragons), fey beings similar to nymphs and dryads
Usage examples of "nereid".
Some famous Nereids were Amphitrite, Clymene, Galatea, Glauce, Panope, and Thetis.
An initial fund of some sixty-five hundred seconds should allow us to buy a channel of communication, if not with Triton or Nereid, then at least with the Neptunian Legate-mass stationed near Trailing Trojan city-swarm, where they keep a permanent embassy.
Rumor held that one of his intermediate consorts had not been entirely human, but rather an Oceanid or Nereid, called Idyia, Hecate, or Nearea, in various versions of the story.
Yordans had chosen a small homestead on Nereid, a domefarm with all its installations intact.
On toward evening, a hundred days later, we were standing on a bluff in the weathered foothills of the Nereid Montes, looking out over the ochre dunefields of Argyre Planitia, when I spotted a Torii camp, nestled in the shadows below, just where the erg spilled out into the jumbled rock remains of Crater Galle.
Trident-bearing Neptune was there, and sportive tritons and fantastic nereids, and upon dolphins' backs was balanced a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the gay and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss.
Jules announced he'd be leaving soon for Nereid to retrieve La Cométe Cuivré, and Yvette said she'd be returning to DesPlaines by herself.
Only recently had Vestress discovered that the elemental creatures, such as Iskor and the nereids, were beyond the banshee's magic, and the illithid had added the efforts of these extraplanar allies to the coming conquest, sending them to the island to quietly decimate Ruathym's fighting forces.
Only recently had Vestress discovered that the elemental creatures, such as Iskor and the nereids, were beyond the banshee’s magic, and the illithid had added the efforts of these extraplanar allies to the coming conquest, sending them to the island to quietly decimate Ruathym’s fighting forces.
Sure enough, comes word from the oracle: Nereids in a pout, somebody's got to pay or it's Cetus forever -- and you know, Perseus, place like Joppa, once your fishery goes under, your whole economy goes.
The Tireos people persist in thinking that our nereids are intelligent because they so closely resemble Earth’s dolphins, but not one marine biologist here agrees.
They refuse to release them until we beam up a pair of sea creatures called nereids, which they claim are intelligent.
But these people are saying that these nereids have as much right to be saved as the children, that the universe will lose all the members of this allegedly intelligent species if we don’t take them aboard.
The nereids swam to the top of the tank, took in air, then dived under the water as the people watched.
The nereids swam to the top again and poked their heads out of the water before submerging themselves once more.