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merperson

n. A mythological creature with a human upper half (head, arms, and torso) and a piscine lower half.

Usage examples of "merperson".

A couple of lengths of this bath were all very well, but that lake was very large, and very deep…and merpeople would surely live right at the bottom.

There was no sign of any of the other champions, merpeople, Ron - nor, thankfully, the giant squid.

A choir of merpeople was singing in the middle, calling the champions toward them, and behind them rose a crude sort of statue.

He was making the same sort of screechy noises that the merpeople made when they were above water.

One week later, however, Ron was telling a thrilling tale of kidnap in which he struggled single-handedly against fifty heavily armed merpeople who had to beat him into submission before tying him up.

There was no sign of any of the other champions, merpeople, Ron – nor, thankfully, the giant squid.

A choir of merpeople were singing in the middle, calling the champions towards them, and behind them rose a crude sort of statue.

The merpeople lived in peace with most of the higher fauna of their world, and a colony of hoppers, even a covey of moth birds, would settle in close by a mer tribe to garner in the remnants of feasts and for protection from the flying dragons and the other dangers they must face.

Though he knew that the merpeople did not build aboveground, being adept in turning natural caves and crevices into the kind of living quarters they found most satisfactory, the barrenness of this particular rock top -was forbidding.

He had known that the merpeople, aroused, were deadly fighters, fearless and crafty, and with a staying power beyond that of any human.

A group of the merpeople were sitting together, and their thoughts interrupted each other as their excitement arose.

To all appearances the city about him was empty of life and, except for the certainty of the merpeople that the alien ship and its strange companion had landed here, he would have believed that he was on a fruitless quest.

Rapport with the merpeople, with the hoppers and the runners, was easy, familiar.

He had long known that contact with the merpeople was on a lower, a far lower, band than they used when among themselves, and that they were only able to “talk” with the colonists because for generations they had exchanged thought symbols with the hoppers and other unlike species.

If the strange flyer reported by the merpeople was beside it, he could not distinguish it from this distance.