Mermaid (disambiguation) explained
A 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" (Danish: 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
- , a 2012 documentary-style television film
- The Mermaid (2016 film), a 2016 Chinese film
Music
Classical
Songs
Visual artworks
Other arts, entertainment, and media
- Mermaid (Stafy), character from the Densetsu no Stafy video game
- Mermaid Series, editions of English Renaissance and Restoration dramatists (named after the Mermaid Tavern, above)
- The Idle Mermaid, a 2014 South Korean romantic comedy television series
- Cure Mermaid, a character in Go! Princess PreCure
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
- Mermaid (software) is a JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify drawings dynamically
See also