Mermother vs Merperson - What's the difference?
mermother | merperson | Hyponyms |
(fantasy) A mother mermaid.
* 1882 , E. L. P, Elfie Under the Sea and Other Stories , Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. (1882),
* 1993 , Suzanne Weyn, Nefazia Visits the Palace , The Trumpet Club (1993), ISBN 9780440843641,
*2007 , Michael Buckley, Peter Ferguson, The Problem Child :
A mythological creature with a human upper half (head, arms, and torso) and a piscine lower half.
Mermother is a hyponym of merperson.
As nouns the difference between mermother and merperson
is that mermother is (fantasy) a mother mermaid while merperson is a mythological creature with a human upper half (head, arms, and torso) and a piscine lower half.mermother
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(en noun)page 21:
- "I shall never see my merfather or my mermother any more, or the mermaids, or the fish-king, or the merry dolphins, or-r-r-r " —
- "Never mind!" cried Elfie, crying too, and she put her arms around the sad little mermaid's neck.
page 43:
- Suddenly a lovely sound filled the air. Ariel turned toward it. Nefazia was sitting on the rock, singing. Her song was low and sweet, like a mermother crooning to her baby.
- A mermother pushed an infant merbaby along the street in an old stroller. Soon Sabrina and the merman reached an enormous palace, nearly five stories high.