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mermaid is a mythical creature with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a fish.
Mermaid may also refer to:
Places
Australia
Mermaid Beach, Queensland , a suburb of the Gold Coast
Mermaid Reach , a reach of the Brisbane River, Queensland
Mermaid Reef, one of three reefs that make up
Rowley Shoals , Western Australia
Mermaid Waters, Queensland , a suburb of the Gold Coast
Mermaids Cave , Blue Mountains, New South Wales, a site where an unknown creature was found
United Kingdom
Arts, entertainment, and media
Literature
The Mermaid , alternative title for "
The Little Mermaid " (Den lille havfrue ) by Hans Christian Andersen
Films
The Mermaid (1910 film) , a 1910 film by the Thanhouser Company
The Mermaid (1965 film) , a 1965 Hong Kong film
Mermaids (1990 film) , 1990 film starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, and Christina Ricci
Mermaid (1996 film) , originally Rusalka , a 1996 animated short film by Aleksandr Petrov
Mermaid (2000 film) , directed by Peter Masterson
Mermaids (2003 film) , starring Erika Heynatz
Mermaid (2007 film) (Russian: Русалка, Rusalka ), 2007 film directed by Anna Melikian
Mermaids: The Body Found , a 2012 documentary-style television film
The Mermaid (2016 film) , a 2016 Chinese film
Music
Classical
Songs
Visual artworks
Other arts, entertainment, and media
Brands and enterprises
Science
MERMAID , a marine scientific instrument platform, short for Mobile Earthquake Recorder for Marine Areas by Independent Divers
Vessels
Other uses
Mermaid (Ninurta) , in Sumerian mythology, one of the Heroes slain by Ninurta
Mermaid, a hybrid tea
rose cultivar
Fiji mermaid , a hoax presented by PT Barnum
Mermaid Syndrome or Sirenomelia, a congenital deformity that gives an appearance of a mermaid
Mermaiding , wearing a costume mermaid tail, often while swimming
Mermaid is the ICAO radio callsign of
Air Alsie , a small airline and charter company based in Sonderborg, Denmark
See also
Topics referred to by the same term