(history) Forming the names of dynasts, being suffixed to the name of their progenitors and meaning “descendant of”. · (taxonomy) Forming the common names of members of a taxon which has a name ending in -idae.
From the stem of Latin Nērēis, from Ancient Greek Νηρηΐς (Nērēḯs), from Νηρεύς (Nēreús, “Nereus”) + -ις (-is), literally “sprung of Nereus”. By surface analysis, Nereus + -id.
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1(Greekmythology) Any one of the fifty sea-nymphs who were daughters of the sea-god Nereus and attendants upon Poseidon (Neptune), and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes in human form and sometimes with the tail of a fish.