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Is caught in wood? That's fishy
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piscine
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Word definitions for piscine in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to fish
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fish; ichthyic.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Piscine : pertaining to fish . It is also a French noun meaning "swimming pool"; see La Piscine (disambiguation) . The Latin word piscina (or sacrarium) denotes a shallow basin placed near the altar of a church. Localities Piscina (TO) , municipality in ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "reservoir, bathing pool," from Old French piscine "fishpond," from Latin piscina , from piscis "a fish" (see fish (n.)). Ecclesiastical sense is from late 15c., from Medieval Latin piscina . As an adjective from 1799.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Piscine \Pis"cine\, a. [L. piscis a fish.] (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to a fish or fishes; as, piscine remains.
Usage examples of piscine.
I got my name when I entered this world, a last, welcome addition to my family, three years after Ravi: Piscine Molitor Patel.
What if Piscine had stuck his hand through the bars of the cage one day to touch the pretty orange fur?
Chiba spoke with Piscine Molitor Patel, in English, for close to three hours, taping the conversation.
A la sortie de la piscine, vendredi soir, elle a pu marcher facilement.
Dangerously distant, he thought as he resolutely returned his attention to his two mismatched companions and their exuberant efforts to mine the piscine realm of its subsurface riches.
He had a wide mouth with fat lips and a foreshortened forehead that gave his face a faintly piscine look.
So he extended the size of the pond in his peristyle right here in Rome and filled it with some more exotic and expensive piscine denizens.
Further off he observed a herd of grazers, piscine but big as whales, plowing slowly through a weed mat.
With the surrounding sea empty of anything save some floating corpses and several high, triangular fins of piscine morticians come to clean up the carnage, Abdullahloath to be in proximity to the Isle of Sao Tome after sunset, if he could help itwas on the verge of ordering the boats to set to work towing the ship, when, with a first, hesitant flutter, the errant breeze once more blew.
As fish-like were the enormous unblinking eyes that bulged from ugly piscine heads.
Huge pallid eyes stared from piscine faces above jaws like ragged bone shears.
Creatures at once batrachian and piscine and anthropomorphic died and died.
I found that I was the very medium for the movement of their piscine limbs, and they seemed oblivious to my consciousness.
They have no buttocks, their breasts are small and hardly break the piscine smoothness of their shape, and their hair is but a patch of seal-like fur on then-scalps.
The piscines would slither outward, some of them still faintly thumping, until they reached an available preparer.