Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The breeding, hatching, and rearing of fish under controlled conditions.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The breeding, rearing, preservation, feeding, and fattening of fish by artificial means; fish-culture. Pisciculture has been practised from very early ages. It appears to have been in use iu ancient Egypt, and was followed in China in early times on a very large scale. It was introduced in Great Britain by Mr. Shaw of Drumlanrig, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1837. An important branch of modern pisciculture is the propagation and rearing of young fish in artificial ponds, with the view of introducing fish previously not found in the locality, or of increasing the supply of desirable food-fishes. Salmon- and trout-ova sent from Great Britain have been successfully propagated in Australia and New Zealand. Of late years America has taken the lead in fish-culture, under the administration of the United States Fish Commission, and millions of ova and fry have been planted in various rivers.
Wiktionary
- n. The rearing or cultivation of fish.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Fish culture. See under fish.
Etymologies
- pisci- + culture (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And perhaps not without effect; for salmon are there still; and will be more and more as French 'pisciculture' develops itself under Government supervision.”
“He busied himself with great questions: the social problem: moralisation of the poorer classes, pisciculture, caoutchouc, railways, etc.”
“Abbé Proyart, the missionaries taught the art of pisciculture near the village of Kilonga, where they formed their first establishment.”
“Aquaculture is often cited as another source of schistosomiasis infection, and it may be when pisciculture of freshwater fish is concerned.”
“The other approach involves an integrated system of a night soil gas plant, algal culture, and pisciculture.”
“In 1867 he was appointed government inspector of fisheries, and in the course of his work travelled constantly about the country, being largely responsible for the increased attention paid to the scientific side of pisciculture.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
“Modern pisciculture in some measure imitates, although, it does not rival the ancient.”
“Nor was his fondness for pisciculture exceptional in his times.”
“We follow pisciculture from necessity or economy, because fish of certain kinds are yearly dying out, and to produce”
“It has a number of admirable public buildings, while, among several parks and recreation grounds, mention must be made of the fine botanical garden, 750 acres in extent, [v. 03 p. 0269] where, in Lake Wendouree, pisciculture is carried on with great success.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pisciculture’.
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Words that sound dirty but aren't.
When you want to be pedantic AND childish.
titular, masticate, condiment, titmouse, penal, formication, social intercourse, assassination, cacophony, lucubrate, rectify, banal and 131 more...
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Cultivating Cultures
agriculture, apiculture, sericulture, horticulture, aquaculture, subculture, permaculture, monoculture, viticulture, floriculture, cyberculture, counterculture and 21 more...
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Underwaterritory
When you're underwater, what do you see or experience? Let's dive...
(Here's a cute little related list called Fishful Thinking...)underwater, curglaff, submarine, underwater habitat, diving bell, paravane, bottom trawling, sediment traps, torpedo, mines, shipwreck, sonar and 214 more...
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pisci-, pisc-
of or relating to fish
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Madame Bovary
Some good words (chiefly French of origin, and often to do with the medical profession) encountered reading the Aveling translation -- mostly new to me, but a few words that are just worthy of bein...
tulle, argand, friable, corolla, lives of stir, difficile, rime, inveigh, feuilleton, peristyle, refulgence, wainscoting and 98 more...
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19 c.
some of the interesting words i've had to look up while reading 19th century lit
maugre, connate, alembic, azote, vaticination, valetudinarian, dight, scutcheon, lammergeyer, chamois, asseverate, prebendary and 199 more...
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
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Under-used words that have everyday m...
The title is pretty self-explanatory, but, in case
it's too simple for complex minds to full comprehend, I shall explain. Any word, that i deem
capable, that I find I can use in everyda...Belswagger, defenestration, galumph, quibble, gadzooks, wangle, lackadaisical, gobsmacked, hobbledehoy, piddling, brouhaha, chutzpah and 8 more...
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yaser's Words
crenellation, pusillanimity, eructation, pisciculture, borborygmus, abscond, ministration, tussock, askance, paean, purveyor, promulgate and 19 more...
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