piscine

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Below our feet the light had attracted many a species of small fish, they swarm in species specific circles at varying speeds and of varying sizes around the light, that overlapped in places like a piscine Venn diagram.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a fish or fishes.

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  • And that's a completely different kettle of piscine lifeform. —  RealClimate
  • Below our feet the light had attracted many a species of small fish, they swarm in species specific circles at varying speeds and of varying sizes around the light, that overlapped in places like a piscine Venn diagram. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Outside is infested with bureaucrats and brownshirts who will confiscate your guns and fishing reels, tattoo your necks with barcodes, and swab your cheeks for DNA to be loaded into a database administered by the Federal Reserve, Illuminati, and the ZOG; and to populists (left and right), Outside is the Great Expropriator, the colonial overlord who permits non-Alaskan corporations to strip the mineral, timber, and piscine frontiers without fairly compensating those who live here. —  Lawyers, Guns and Money
  • Gastronomes with no such restrictions can buck the trend, or cruise along happily in the wake, snapping up various piscine restaurant specials and yes, sometimes Filet-O-Fish sandwiches.
  • Shark Tale, a cartoon movie featuring Robert De Niro as a murderous piscine Godfather named Don Lino. —  The Latest From VanityFair.com
 

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  1. Medieval Latin piscīnus, from Latin piscis, fish.

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  1. from Middle English pyscyne, from Old French (and F.) piscine = Spanish Portuguese Italian piscina, from Latin piscina, a fish-pond, a pool, cistern, basin, from piscis, fish: see fish.
  2. from New Latin piscinus, from Latin piscis, fish: see fish.
 

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/ˈpɪsɪn/
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