Crossword clues for nereis
nereis
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nereis \Ne"re*is\ (? or ?), prop. n.; pl. Nereides. [L.]
(Class. Myth.) A Nereid. See Nereid.
(Zo["o]l.) A genus, including numerous species, of marine ch[ae]topod annelids, having a well-formed head, with two pairs of eyes, antenn[ae], four pairs of tentacles, and a protrusile pharynx, armed with a pair of hooked jaws.
Wikipedia
Nereis is a genus of polychaete worms in the family Nereidae. It comprises many species, most of which are marine, including the sandworm ( Nereis virens) and the common clam worm (Nereis succinea). Nereis possess setae and parapodia for locomotion. They may have two types of setae, which are found on the parapodia. Acicular setae provide support. Locomotor chaetae are for crawling, and are the bristles that are visible on the exterior of the Polychaeta.
Usage examples of "nereis".
It took the help of Nereis, braced against the floor, to ease him to the top of the two-meter-thick outer wall of unshaped, cemented rocks and gravel.
He had not flown since meeting Creak and Nereis, so he knew nothing of the planet save what the two natives had told him.
Creak and Nereis for hours before their first actual meeting, standing within a dozen meters of them at times while they were under-water.
Rantans would prove as casually friendly as Creak and Nereis had been.
Creak and Nereis when he had been making chemical studies of the local rocks and their own foodstuffs supported this idea.
The natives worked their way over it, pulling themselves along by the irregularities as Creak and Nereis had done on land.
Unless he had to stay with Nereis for some reason, it should be possible to get back in, say, five or six hours.
He also worried a little: Cunningham had been meaning to tell him that Nereis was all right, but had not seen him to deliver the message.
Cunningham had watched Creak and Nereis for hours before their first actual meeting, standing within a dozen meters of them at times while they were under-water.
It had been Nereis, still underwater, who saw the grotesquely refracted human form approaching her husband and hurled herself from the water in between the two.
Cunningham took no weapons, though he was not assuming that all Rantans would prove as casually friendly as Creak and Nereis had been.
The creature answered audibly, and the man was able to understand fairly well, though there were occasional words he had never heard from Nereis or from Creak.