merprince en · NOUN
Etymology
From mer- + prince.
Meanings
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A merman who is a prince.
She sighed audibly when the merprince rescued the young mermaid and whisked her away to his kingdom as his bride, thus ending the story.
2005, Tracey V. Bateman, Kansas Home: Hearts Adrift Find a Place to Dwell in Four Romantic Stories, Barbour Publishing Incorporated, →ISBN, page 49:We have the merprince and merprincess and tonight we will finish defeating the soldiers at the mercastle.
2003, Gretel Killeen, My Sister's a Sea Slug, Random House Children's Publishing UK, published 2012, →ISBN:Down the beach, a group of mergirls and boys were facing off with the same merprince who'd spoken through the mirror.
2005, Rachel Roberts, The Heart of Avalon, CDS Books, →ISBN, page 18:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| merprinces | Number=Plur | lexicographic |