Usually means: Small, colorful, freshwater or marine snails.
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  1. nerites: Merriam-Webster
  2. nerites: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Nerites: Wordnik
  4. nerites: Wiktionary
  5. Nerites (mythology), Nerites: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Nerites)

noun:  In Greek mythology, Nerites was a minor sea deity, the son of "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanid DorisGrimal, s.v. Nerites, p. 308.


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