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Nereid

[neer-ee-id] / ˈnɪər i ɪd /


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She looks like a nereid, guarding the sea behind her, ready to kick away underwater when it rushes in.

From The New Yorker • May 19, 2017

The nereid made no move to hand Mal over.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

“What was that nereid trying to say to you?”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

But Ino saw him—Ino, Kadmos’ daughter, slim-legged, lovely, once an earthling girl, now in the seas a nereid, Leukothea.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

A nereid called after her in Nerish, something high and strangely pleading, but she did not turn.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell