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Definitions of mermaid in various dictionaries:
noun - half woman and half fish
A legendary sea creature having the head and upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish.
noun - a legendary marine creature
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| Ariel, the lead character in a 1989 animated film, is one of these creatures |
| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew at the Buckhorn Museum in San Antonio, Texas) One of P.T. Barnum's classic hoaxes was the Fiji this, actually a monkey's head on a fish's body |
| The type of gown named for this creature of legend often has a fishtail skirt or train |
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| A legendary sea creature having the head and upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish. |
| a mythical sea creature with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail of a fish, conventionally depicted as beautiful and with long flowing golden hair. |
| half woman and half fish lives in the sea |
| an imaginary creature described in stories, with the upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish |
| an imaginary creature with the upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish |
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In folklore, a mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide, including the Near East, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria, in which the goddess Atargatis transformed herself into a mermaid out of shame for accidentally killing her human lover. Mermaids are sometimes associated with perilous events such as floods, storms, shipwrecks, and drownings. In other folk traditions (or sometimes within the same tradition), they can be benevolent or beneficent, bestowing boons or falling in love with humans. * The male equivalent of the mermaid is the merman, also a familiar figure in folklore and heraldry. Although traditions about and sightings of mermen are less common than those of mermaids, they are generally assumed to co-exist with their female counterparts. * Some of the attributes of mermaids may have been influenced by the Sirens of Greek m |