nereid in English

noun
1
any of the sea nymphs, daughters of Nereus. They include Thetis, mother of Achilles.
2
a satellite of Neptune, the farthest from the planet, discovered in 1949. It has an irregular shape, a diameter of 211 miles (340 km), and an eccentric orbit.
noun
1
a bristle worm of the polychaete family ( Nereidae ).
Only further studies on nereids and other organisms will allow a better evaluation of the actual impact and chemistry of acute and persistent oil pollution on chemical communication in marine environments.

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1. Amphitrite was a Nereid, a sea nymph, who married Poseidon

2. Amphitrite (Αμφιτρίτη in Ancient Greek) is a sea-goddess, an Oceanid or Nereid depending on the source

3. Arethusa (mythology), a nereid nymph who became a fountain Arethusa, one of the Hesperides nymphs; Places

4. Nereid is third-largest of Neptune's satellites, and has an average radius of about 170 kilometres (110 mi).

5. What does Amphitrite mean? A Nereid, goddess of the sea and the wife of Poseidon

6. The most general features are that the Nereid nymph 3 Arethusa is playing by the sea in Western Greece's

7. Achilles, in Greek mythology, son of the mortal Peleus, king of the Myrmidons, and the Nereid, or sea nymph, Thetis

8. In 1991, a rotation period of Nereid of about 13.6 hours was determined by an analysis of its light curve.

9. Project partners also collected data on little studied organisms, such as shrimp-like amphipods and syllid and nereid polychaete worms, which live among small 'turf' algae.

10. Acis and Galatea are characters from Greek mythology later associated together in Ovid's Metamorphoses.The episode tells of the love between the mortal Acis and the Nereid (sea-nymph) Galatea; when the jealous Cyclops Polyphemus kills Acis, Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit

11. Arethusa (Mygdonia), an ancient city in Mygdonia of ancient Macedonia Arethusa, ancient name of Al-Rastan, Syria; Arethusa (see), a titular see of Syria near Apamea Arethuse, a fountain in Ortygia, Sicily, named from the above nereid; Arethousa, a municipal unit in the