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Terms vs Merchild - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and merchild

is that terms is while merchild is the young of either sex of a legendary creature, human from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down.

terms

English

Noun

(head)

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    merchild

    English

    Noun

    (merchildren)
  • The young of either sex of a legendary creature, human from the waist up, fishlike from the waist down.
  • *1904 , Thomas Bird Mosher, The Bibelot , p. 160:
    • The fish-tailed merchild carved in crumbling stone
    Wreathed with loose straggling roses, reigns alone...
  • * 2003 , Liz Kessler, The Tail of Emily Windsnap , Scholastic, ISBN 9780439781787, page 57:
    • There were mermaids with gold chains around slinky long tails, swimming along with little merchildren .
  • * 2003 , Debbie Viguié, Midnight Pearls , Simon Pulse (2003), ISBN 0689855575, page 80:
    • He shuddered as he thought about all the stories he had heard as a young merchild .

    Hyponyms

    * merbaby * merteen