piscine

[ pahy-seen, pis-ahyn, -een, -in ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or resembling a fish or fishes.

piscine

/ ˈpɪsaɪn /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or resembling a fish

piscine

/ pī′sēn′,pĭs′īn′ /

1. Relating to or characteristic of fishes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of piscine¹

1790–1800; < Latin piscīnus, equivalent to pisc ( is ) fish + -īnus -ine ¹

Example Sentences

Understanding where and when these piscine frontiers will emerge will be key for future conservation plans, the researchers reported on December 7 in Nature Communications.

From Popular-Science

In recent years, the piscine darling has helped secure the Scandinavian country favorable trade and tourism agreements with China.

From The Daily Beast

The Old Man was astonished as the Senator, who sat with gaping piscine mouth and pop eyes.

From Project Gutenberg

There seems no reason to doubt that modern fish, as a whole, quite equal in size the piscine fauna of any previous geological age.

From Project Gutenberg

Now, it is among these piscine characteristics that we find the clue to where Man got his ears.

From Project Gutenberg

Today, with a multitude of the afflicted, I bathed in the piscine, a long trough filled with holy water from the grotto.

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He leaned forward and fixed the tabletop with a piscine stare.

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