Siren
noun
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Sense 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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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | sea nymph |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Lorelei |