• In Greek mythology, the Nereids or Nereides (/ˈnɪəriɪdz/ NEER-ee-idz; Ancient Greek: Νηρηΐδες, romanized: Nērēḯdes; sg. Νηρηΐς, Nērēḯs, also Νημερτές)...
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    Nereid, or Neptune II, is the third-largest moon of Neptune. It has the most eccentric orbit of all known moons in the Solar System. It was the second...
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  • Look up Nereid, nereid, nereids, or spio in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A Nereid is a sea nymph in Greek mythology. Nereid or Nereids may also refer...
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    Nereid Monument (Tomb of Arbinas) The Nereid Monument is a sculptured tomb from Xanthos in Lycia (then part of the Achaemenid Persian Empire), close to...
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  • Triton and Nereid may refer to: Art Triton and Nereid (Sussmann-Hellborn), also known as Meeresidylle, painting by Louis Sussmann-Hellborn (missing since...
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    a century passed before the discovery of the second natural satellite, Nereid, in 1949, and another 40 years passed before Proteus, Neptune's second-largest...
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    In Greek mythology, Psamathe (Ancient Greek: Ψαμάθη) is a Nereid, one of the fifty daughters of the sea god Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. By Aeacus, the...
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    Nereid Lake (Bulgarian: езеро Нереида, romanized: ezero Nereida, IPA: [ˈɛzɛro nɛrɛˈidɐ]) is the trapezoidal lake 450 m long in west-southwest to east-northeast...
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  • Greek: Θάλεια Tháleia "the joyous, the abundance") was one of the fifty Nereids, marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid...
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    The Nereid Avenue station (/ˈnɪəriɪd/ NEER-ee-id; formerly East 238th Street station) is a local station on the IRT White Plains Road Line of the New York...
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    trilogy is the Nereids (Νηρείδες, Nēreídes). The chorus was thus a group of Nereids, and the subject of the play involved Achilles and his Nereid mother Thetis...
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    Solar System, namely Uranus's satellite Miranda and Neptune's satellite Nereid. In addition, he discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Mars, and...
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    Greek mythology. Galatea is also the name of a sea-nymph, one of the fifty Nereids (daughters of Nereus) mentioned by Hesiod and Homer. In Theocritus Idylls...
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    tree nymphs), the Alseids (grove nymphs), the Naiads (spring nymphs), the Nereids (sea nymphs), the Oceanids (ocean nymphs), the Oreads (mountain nymphs)...
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    or as the mount of a Nereid. Queen Cassiopeia boasted that she and her daughter Andromeda were more beautiful than the Nērēides (in most later works called...
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    (Rhodes). Several of the names given for Oceanids, are also names given for Nereids, the fifty sea nymphs who were the daughters of the sea god Nereus and...
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    Thetis (category Nereids)
    goddess of water, and one of the 50 Nereids, daughters of the ancient sea god Nereus. When described as a Nereid in Classical myths, Thetis was the daughter...
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    son of Gaia. Nereus and Doris became the parents of 50 daughters (the Nereids) and a son (Nerites), with whom Nereus lived in the Aegean Sea. The name...
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    Nereididae (redirect from Nereid (worm))
    or mud. Ragworms are mainly omnivorous but many are active carnivores. Nereids breed only once before dying (semelparity), and most of them morph into...
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    as a novel compound which was named Nereid (after the mermaids in Greek mythology). As reflected by the name, Nereid can be seen as just another relative...
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    Amphitrite (category Nereids)
    Amphitrite was one of the Nereid daughters of Nereus and Doris. The mythographer Apollodorus, however, lists her among both the Nereids, as well as the Oceanids...
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    popular culture Thalia Theatre (disambiguation) Thalia (Grace) Thalia (Nereid) Thalia (nymph) "Thalia". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford...
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    Avenue–149th Street. Limited rush hour service originates and/or terminates at Nereid Avenue or Gun Hill Road/White Plains Road in the Bronx instead of Dyre Avenue...
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    related to Triton at Wikimedia Commons Nereid and Triton Mosaic from Ephesus Terrace Home -2 3D stereoview of Nereid and Triton relief from Apollon Temple...
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  • "she who is milk-white") was the name of the following figures: Galatea, a Nereid who loved the shepherd Acis, and was loved by the cyclops Polyphemus. Galatea...
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  • help-for-hire organization called Nereids (inspired by the Greek mythological Nereids). With nowhere to go, Maia joins up with Nereids, taking jobs from capturing...
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  • make the Palici the sons of Hephaestus or Adranus. Thalia (Muse) Thalia (Nereid) Thalia (Grace) "Home : Oxford English Dictionary". "Thalia Definition &...
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    warriors. The central character in Homer's Iliad, he was the son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus, king of Phthia and famous Argonaut. Achilles was raised...
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    Lycia, a territory Mausolus had invaded and annexed c. 360 BC, such as the Nereid Monument. The Mausoleum was approximately 45 m (148 ft) in height, and the...
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    youngest daughter of Oceanus, (2) Asterodeia, a Caucasian Oceanid, (3) the Nereid Neaera, (4) Clytia, (5) Ipsia or Eurylyte. According to others, he was the...
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