Crossword-Solution: NEREIS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nereis | n. | A Nereid. See Nereid. |
| Nereis | n. | A genus, including numerous species, of marine chaetopod annelids, having a well-formed head, with two pairs of eyes, antennae, four pairs of tentacles, and a protrusile pharynx, armed with a pair of hooked jaws. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NEREIS | anagram | EISNER, ERNIES, ESERIN, INSEER, IRENES, REINES, RIESEN, SEINER, SEREIN, SERINE, SIRENE |
We have 11 clues for the answer “NEREIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Clam worm | 1 answer |
| Daughter of a sea god: Lat. | 1 answer |
| Sea nymph: Lat. | 1 answer |
| type of marine worm | 1 answer |
| Greek sea nymph | 2 answers |
| WORM (genus) | 2 answers |
| worm sea | 3 answers |
| sea worm | 7 answers |
| Water nymph | 10 answers |
| sea nymph | 12 answers |
| AQUATIC worm | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with NEREIS (5)
They have succeeded in developing embryos from the eggs of the sea urchin, of the nereis, and of mollusks, without spermatozoa.
See Hetero-, and Nereis.] (Zoöl.) Defn: A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.
They are absolutely inexplicable on any other supposition.] [Footnote 8: "Cosmos," Otté's translation.] [Footnote 9: Hamilton, "Royal Preacher."] [Footnote 10: Harvey, "Nereis Boreali Americana."] [Footnote 11: Osburn, "Monumental History of Egypt."] [Footnote 12: On this subject I may refer naturalists to the intimate acquaintance with animals and their habits, indicated by manner of their use as sacred emblems, and as symbols in hieroglyphic writing.
Thus _Nereis_ among the latter worms, from the resemblance which its excretory system bears to that of the Oligochaeta, may be made the starting-point of a series.
The Simple or Asexual Method of Reproduction _Materials._ Slides or diagrams, showing a dividing amœba, a dividing paramecium, a dividing vorticella, reproduction in some form of sporozoa, budding hydra, gemmules of spongilla, and some species of worm as Dero or Nereis in the process of dividing.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1962–2003).