Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a fish or fishes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish-pond.
- Pertaining in any way to fish or fishes; ichthyic: as, piscine remains; piscine affinities.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to a fish or fishes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of
fish ;ichthyic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to fish
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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...
Francophilia! Jessica 2004
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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...
Archive 2004-09-01 Jessica 2004
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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) Various 1885
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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 History Rides the Waves John Steele Gordon 2010
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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.
The Odd Couple of Food and Wine Jay McInerney 2011
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A massive galleon sailed on the waves far above my piscine semblance.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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A massive galleon sailed on the waves far above my piscine semblance.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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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.
party planner 2009
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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.
Archive 2010-06-01 Ulysses 2010
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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.
Canada Day Ulysses 2010
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