See merchild on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "mer", "3": "child" }, "expansion": "mer- + child", "name": "prefix" } ], "etymology_text": "From mer- + child.", "forms": [ { "form": "merchildren", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "merchildren" }, "expansion": "merchild (plural merchildren)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "hyponyms": [ { "word": "merbaby" }, { "word": "merteen" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English nouns with irregular plurals", "English terms prefixed with mer-", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned", "en:Merpeople" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1904, Thomas Bird Mosher, The Bibelot, page 160:", "text": "The fish-tailed merchild carved in crumbling stone\nWreathed with loose straggling roses, reigns alone...", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2003, Liz Kessler, The Tail of Emily Windsnap, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 57:", "text": "There were mermaids with gold chains around slinky long tails, swimming along with little merchildren.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2003, Debbie Viguié, Midnight Pearls, Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 80:", "text": "He shuddered as he thought about all the stories he had heard as a young merchild.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "The young of either sex of a legendary creature, human from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down." ], "links": [ [ "legendary", "legendary" ], [ "creature", "creature" ], [ "human", "human" ], [ "fish", "fish" ] ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "merkid" } ], "word": "merchild" }
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