Siren

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Definitions of Siren
  1. noun
    a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived
    “Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears so they would not hear the Siren's fatal song”
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    Lorelei
    a Siren of German legend who lured boatmen in the Rhine to destruction
    type of:
    sea nymph
    (Greek mythology) a water nymph who was the daughter of Oceanus or Nereus
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