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Definition of Mermaid
1. Noun. Half woman and half fish; lives in the sea.
Definition of Mermaid
1. n. 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.
Definition of Mermaid
1. a legendary marine creature [n -S]
Medical Definition of Mermaid
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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, a European spatangoid sea urchin (Echinocardium cordatum) having some resemblance to a skull.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mermaid
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