mermaid
noun
(in folklore) a female marine creature, having the head, torso, and arms of a woman and the tail of a fish.
mermaids
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pluralof mermaid.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He stayed in a large bedroom on the first floor’s west wing, which features a delicate plaster frieze of mermaids and multiple layers of ancient wooden panelling.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024
Fish-tailed mermaids and Barbie dolls are free from ticking biological and career clocks – although they imagine or play at the things determined by those clocks, too.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2023
Not only that, Ruby learns that the kraken are warriors who protect the sea from their rivals, such as the vain and power-hungry mermaids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
Mythical hybrid beasts such as mermaids, centaurs and chimeras testify to our enduring fascination with the plasticity of biological form: the idea that natural organisms can mutate or be reconfigured.
From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023
I held out a carrot and whistled again, a song about mermaids, Apple’s distant cousins.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
