Sentence examples for Nereid from inspiring English sources
noun
One of 50 sea nymphs who were attendants upon Poseidon (Neptune), and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes in human form and sometimes with the tail of a fish.
The removal of the brain of a nereid that normally undergoes epitoky causes morphological changes without the subsequent formation of gametes.
She looks like a nereid, guarding the sea behind her, ready to kick away underwater when it rushes in.
Nereid, third largest known moon of Neptune and the second to be discovered.
Nereid has a diameter of about 340 km (210 miles).
Nereid is exceedingly faint, making observations with even the largest Earth-based telescopes very difficult.
Proteus, with a mean radius of about 208 km (129 miles), is a little larger than Nereid, with a mean radius of about 170 km (106 miles).
Andromeda's mother, Cassiopeia, had claimed to be more beautiful than the sea nymphs, or Nereids; so Poseidon had punished Ethiopia by flooding it and plaguing it with a sea monster.
The Oceanids, for example, were sea nymphs; the Nereids inhabited both saltwater and freshwater; the Naiads presided over springs, rivers, and lakes.
It is named after the numerous daughters, called Nereids, of the sea god Nereus in Greek mythology.
Nereids that normally do not undergo epitoky are unaffected by the removal of the brain.
Many polychaetes, especially among the nereids, reproduce only once and then die.
