Palaemon

Palaemon may refer toPalaemon, a genus of shrimpAn alternative name for the Greek hero HeraklesAn alternative name for the Greek hero MelicertesOne of the Argonauts, son of Aetolus.Remmius Palaemon, the ancient Roman grammarian.
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Noun
1. type genus of the family Palaemonidae; widely distributed genus
(synonym) genus Palaemon
(hypernym) arthropod genus
(member-holonym) Palaemonidae, family Palaemonidae
(member-meronym) prawn

[Greek] A marine deity connected with Poseidon, and identified by the Romans with Portunes, god of harbors. He was originally Melicertes, son of Ino, and became a marine deity together with his mother when she cast herself with him into the sea.

Palaemon palaimon (Greek) The wrestler; applied to Herakles and Melicertes, a name of Phoenician origin, taken from the Phoenician divinity Melcart. Ino, daughter of Cadmus and wife of Athamas, flying from her husband, sprang with her child Melicertes into the sea; the gods out of compassion made her a sea goddess and her son a god under the name of Palaemon.