The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SIRENS which also is the latest solution we found used in Chronicle of Higher Education in 2011.
Mythological temptresses crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SIRENS | 100 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Mythological temptresses
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- siren
- adventuress
- beasts
- charms
- conspirators
- delinquents
- demagogue
- demons
- enchantress
- enticements
- ghosts
- killers
Crossword Answer definitions
SIRENS noun- 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.
- A device, either mechanical or electronic, that makes a piercingly loud sound as an alarm or signal, or the sound from such a device (first recorded 1879).
- A musical instrument, one of the few aerophones in the percussion section of the symphony orchestra (patented as Acme Siren in 1895).
- An instrument for demonstrating the laws of beats and combination tones.
- An astrophysical event that can be used for calculating cosmic distances.
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