siren

/ˈsaɪəɹən/ · noun

Meaning

One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks.
One who sings sweetly and charms.
A dangerously seductive woman.
A member of an order of mammals of Sirenia (first attested in French in Dominique Bouhours, Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène, 1671).
A member of a genus of aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae (originally introduced by Linnaeus, 1766, for a genus of his reptiles), commonly used for all species subsumed under the family of Sirenidae.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Hestina.
To make a noise with, or as if with, a siren.
Relating to or like a siren.

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