merparent

English

Etymology

From mer- +‎ parent.

Noun

merparent (plural merparents)

1. (fantasy) A parent who is a merperson.
   • 1984, Penelope Hughes, “Home Life of a Triton”, in Richard Hughes: Author, Father, Alan Sutton, →ISBN, part one (1939–1945), page 7:

     After a while the distressed merparents came in search of their lost child.

   • 2007, Suzanne Selfors, “The Goldfish Sacrifice”, in To Catch a Mermaid, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 2009, →ISBN, page 48:

     He wiped milk from his eyebrows and wondered if merparents spanked their children.

   • 2015, Debbie Dadey, “A Promise”, in A Tale of Two Sisters (Mermaid Tales), Aladdin, →ISBN, pages 70–71:

     A steady stream of merparents and merstudents floated in.

   • 2015, Howard T. Parsons, chapter 26, in Urban Mermaid (Tails from Colony Island; book one), Renton, Wash.: Moonlight Garden, →ISBN, page 303:

     “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.”