Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a fish or fishes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fish-pond.
- Pertaining in any way to fish or fishes; ichthyic: as, piscine remains; piscine affinities.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to a fish or fishes.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to fish
Etymologies
- Medieval Latin piscīnus, from Latin piscis, fish.
Examples
“Lovely food from local market, a little private 'piscine' in our jardin, some trips to see the chateaux at Usse and Azay-le-Rideau and a spot of wine-tasting for good measure...”
“The hall of the "piscine" is a hundred and twenty paces long; that in which the bathers disrobed is eighty feet in height; the whole is covered with marble, and with such beautiful marble that mantel ornaments are now made of its fragments.”
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One)
“A massive galleon sailed on the waves far above my piscine semblance.”
“While I'm depleting the piscine community, you'll be interested to know that the latest winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest have perpetrated their crimes on the reading public and been justly rewarded therefore.”
“You could do worse in your search for answers to these questions than to go to New York's Le Bernardin, the Michelin three-star temple of piscine cuisine.”
“It is equally the st ory of geology on a grand scale, of discovery and exploration, of fishing and the incomparable piscine riches of the Grand Banks.”
“When we lived in a tiny Parisian deux pieces after my divorce I had a party for my daughter at a place where there was a massive play area (piscine a balles etc) and the staff took care of the kids while you had a coffee.”
“Also, in high school French, my mnemonic for remembering "pool" was "Piss in (piscine) the pool.”
“Mr. Riccioli, perhaps the Fergus Henderson of the piscine world believes, like his father before him, in using less fashionable fish such as sardines, anchovies and calamari, as well as in using the entire fish.”
The Wall Street Journal: Plucking the Finest Fruits From the Sea
“As piscine ubiquity rose over the next four decades, design trends flourished.”
The Wall Street Journal: Swimming Pools: Out of the Blue, Into the Black
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘piscine’.
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Jeeves and Wooster - Jeeves
"Jeevesisms" as heard from the valet Jeeves in P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves and Wooster" stories.
temptations of a ..., with due expediency, outspoken disposi..., spring unbidden t..., simplicity of genius, natural gratifica..., under the delusion, warmly ensconced, merry mélange, opprobrious remark, respectable woman, taciturnity and 46 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 1074 more...
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Animal Descriptors
Do any of your friends eat like a pig? Sly like a fox? Fast as a cheetah? Maybe these words describe them better
erinaceous, alaudine, phocine, porcine, accipritine, acarine, alopecoid, anatine, anguine, anopheline, apian, arietine and 80 more...
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Favorite adjectives
ovine, piscine, ursine, lupine, murine, leonine, elephantine, porcine, aquiline, saccharine, serpentine, equine and 3 more...
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animals strike curious poses
the asethetic of an animal... animal adjectives
corvine, pavonine, equine, bovine, musteline, myrmecine, ursine, apic, ranine, vulpine, vespine, pteropine and 20 more...
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pisci-, pisc-
of or relating to fish
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