SIREN

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French sereine, from Late Latin ~a, from Latin ~, from Greek seirēn Date: 14th century any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing, 2. a woman who sings with enchanting sweetness, temptress , temptation 2, 3. an apparatus producing musical tones especially in acoustical studies by the rapid interruption of a current of air, steam, or fluid by a perforated rotating disk, a device often electrically operated for producing a penetrating warning sound , either of two North American eel-shaped amphibians that constitute a genus ( Siren ) and have small forelimbs but neither hind legs nor pelvis and have permanent external gills as well as lungs, II. adjective Date: 1568 resembling that of a ~ ; enticing