"merfamily" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2008, Donna Varnes, The Cove, Xulon Press, page 271",
          "text": "\"The land fairies say the pollution in the cove has been making all the sea creatures sick. I imagine that includes the merfamily. […]",
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          "ref": "2012, Annie McLeod, Man or Beast, Glass Jar Publishing (2012), page 54",
          "text": "Internally, the floor had been built up with flat rocks, therefore, even at high tide, it never contained more than two feet of water, and in the evening the entrance was always damned up by large boulders so that any incoming water did not disturb the sleeping merfamily."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, MaryJanice Davidson, Swimming Without a Net, Jove (2007), back cover blurb",
          "text": "To visit the undersea realm of Artur, the High Prince, and the rest of the royal merfamily, she has to fin it to the Cayman Islands."
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        "A family of merfolk."
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          "merfolk",
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        "(fantasy) A family of merfolk."
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