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Word: Nereis
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 18th century; earliest use found in John Hill (bap. 1714, d. 1775), physician and actor. From scientific Latin Nereis (Linnaeus Systema Naturae (ed. 10, 1758) I. 654) from classical Latin Nērēis, Nēreis
Definition:
A genus of marine annelids (the type genus of the family Nereidae or Nereididae, the ragworms); (also nereis) a worm of (or formerly assigned to) this genus.
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