"merchild" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From mer- + child.",
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      "form": "merchildren",
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          "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...",
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        {
          "ref": "2003, Liz Kessler, The Tail of Emily Windsnap, Scholastic, page 57",
          "text": "There were mermaids with gold chains around slinky long tails, swimming along with little merchildren.",
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          "ref": "2003, Debbie Viguié, Midnight Pearls, Simon Pulse, page 80",
          "text": "He shuddered as he thought about all the stories he had heard as a young merchild.",
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        "The young of either sex of a legendary creature, human from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down."
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          "word": "merbaby"
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          "word": "merteen"
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          "human",
          "human"
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        [
          "fish",
          "fish"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "merkid"
        }
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  "word": "merchild"
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  "etymology_text": "From mer- + child.",
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