Noun: moonchild
| Singular | moonchild |
| Plural | moonchildren |
Sample Sentences
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The punk icon and bottle-blond beauty is a moonchild who, like most Cancer women, has a "heart of glass." [2007, Holiday Mathis, Rock Your Stars: Your Astrological Guide to Getting It All:]
Nouns inflected like moonchild
subchild,
great grandchild,
natural child,
great-great-grandchild,
merchild,
boychild,
iPad child,
spirit child,
flower child,
paternal grandchild,
lovechild,
schoolchild,
snowflake child,
home child,
moonchild,
pretermitted child,
single child,
only child,
foster child,
anarchild, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From moon + child, because the ruling planet of Cancer is the Moon. The term is used to avoid the negative connotations of the word cancer.