Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining in any way to pisciculture: fish-cultural.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Relating to pisciculture.

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  • adjective Pertaining to pisciculture.

Etymologies

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From pisciculture +‎ -al.

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Examples

  • The easiest way is, of course, to buy yearling or two-year-old fish from a piscicultural establishment, of which there are many in the kingdom, but I know that there are many fishermen who would much prefer to rear their own fish from the ova, than to buy ready-made fish.

    Amateur Fish Culture Charles Edward Walker

  • Reports have been issued by piscicultural experts, proving the suitability of the coasts for the culture of the fish, and the matter has "come into official consideration"; and it is to be hoped that Government will take steps to foster this lucrative pursuit, the centres of which are at Shark's Bay, about two hundred miles North of Geraldton, and at Broome, yet further

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • In one place piscicultural nurseries line the banks for nearly fifty miles.

    Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866

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