Marined

Near-synonym: mer-

Some other of the marined animals deserve special attention. Sea-horses in the earliest heraldic examples closely resemble the queer fish known by that name (the hippocampus), but classic art had furnished quite another type: the forequarters of a horse, with mane and hoofs, and the hindquarters replaced by a fish's tail.

The menagerie of blazonry has been enlarged by representing nearly all of the animals at times with fish-tails, when they are said to be marined.

He was a marined, a merman, neither one thing nor the other.

The capitals of the four columns that support the wall between the pronaos and the naos (Ilieș, 1969) are decorated with acanthus leaves, with the following sculptures: the eagle holding the lamb in its claws (it symbolizes the simple man, innocence, kindness), with an angel on its flanks (the messenger of God, the guardian who watches over each man in order to keep him away from evil and to incite him to goodness) with his arms clasped onto his chest (fig. 16); a fantastic animal – marined "lion" (with the lower part of the body terminated in a fish tail, like that of the mermaids) (Pastoureau, 2008) (fig. 17).