Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the shape of a fish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a fish; like a fish in shape; technically, fish-like in structure or affinities; ichthyopsidan; ichthyomorphic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form of a fish; resembling a fish.
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- adjective Having the shape of a
fish .
Etymologies
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Examples
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On the other hand the "non-rigid" type may be roughly described as a pisciform balloon fitted with propelling machinery, inasmuch as the car containing the driving machinery is suspended from the balloon in the manner of the car in the ordinary drifting vessel.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
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C. Dumeril, in 1876, found it again in pools that formed after rains, and named the creature (which is of a bluish color passing to red) the "pisciform binocle."
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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-- Body pisciform, terminated by a horizontal fin with two lobes; colour slaty brown above, sometimes bluish black, whitish below.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Their external features are an elongated pisciform body, the toes joined by a membrane converting the feet into broad flippers or fins, the two hind ones being so close as to act like the caudal fin of
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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[1] Vishnu was (as Sir W. Jones calls him) "a pisciform god," -- his first
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
she commented on the word pisciform
Fish-shaped.
July 17, 2008