"merparent" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1984, Penelope Hughes, “Home Life of a Triton”, in Richard Hughes: Author, Father, Alan Sutton, part one (1939–1945), page 7",
          "text": "After a while the distressed merparents came in search of their lost child.",
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          "ref": "2007, Suzanne Selfors, “The Goldfish Sacrifice”, in To Catch a Mermaid, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 2009, page 48",
          "text": "He wiped milk from his eyebrows and wondered if merparents spanked their children.",
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          "ref": "2015, Debbie Dadey, “A Promise”, in A Tale of Two Sisters (Mermaid Tales), Aladdin, pages 70–71",
          "text": "A steady stream of merparents and merstudents floated in.",
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          "ref": "2015, Howard T. Parsons, chapter 26, in Urban Mermaid (Tails from Colony Island; book one), Renton, Wash.: Moonlight Garden, page 303",
          "text": "“Pops, he’s a fine young man and smart, too. Besides, he has merparents.” “A human with merparents? That’s impossible! I suppose you’ll tell me next he’s planning to grow a tail.”",
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        "(fantasy) A parent who is a merperson."
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