mermaid-like

The blue coral reefs that surround the Oura Bay there are reported to be some of the largest in the world and are home to a rich ecosystem that includes sea turtles and dugong, which looks like a manatee with a mermaid-like fan tail.

Stephen Nessen: Anger Over U.S. Marine Base In Okinawa Continues Stephen Nessen 2011

The blue coral reefs that surround the Oura Bay there are reported to be some of the largest in the world and are home to a rich ecosystem that includes sea turtles and dugong, which looks like a manatee with a mermaid-like fan tail.

Stephen Nessen: Anger Over U.S. Marine Base In Okinawa Continues Stephen Nessen 2011

A group of friends "on the banks of the Buffelsjags River at Suurbraak, a village close to Swellendam in the Western Cape" (South Africa), believe they saw a Kaaiman, or mermaid-like creature.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

An outcast girl regales a princeling with strange stories featuring shape-shifting sorceresses, a bawdy, hard-drinking mermaid-like creature named Grog, and, yes, vegetarian dog-headed monks sent to kill a female antipope.

Look, Ma! yuki_onna 2006

I don't like getting my hands dusty, don't want unkempt clothes, and don't go a day without washing the mermaid-like hair.

chicagojo Diary Entry chicagojo 2003

Her submerged deformity, as she floated, mermaid-like, upon the waves was to be forgotten in her material splendor.

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845

Her submerged deformity, as she floated, mermaid-like, upon the waves was to be forgotten in her material splendor.

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) John Lothrop Motley 1845

Her submerged deformity, as she floated, mermaid-like, upon the waves was to be forgotten in her material splendor.

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 02: Introduction II John Lothrop Motley 1845

Her submerged deformity, as she floated, mermaid-like, upon the waves was to be forgotten in her material splendor.

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

Sometimes they are described as having fins or a large mermaid-like tail instead of legs.

Documenting Reality guttsfukk 2010