piscine
of, relating to, or resembling a fish or fishes.
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How to use piscine in a sentence
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.
The salmon of 2100 will have new habitat: the remains of melted glaciers | Kate Baggaley | December 9, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIn recent years, the piscine darling has helped secure the Scandinavian country favorable trade and tourism agreements with China.
The Surprising Reasons the Chinese Love the Little Mermaid | Chantel Tattoli | August 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Old Man was astonished as the Senator, who sat with gaping piscine mouth and pop eyes.
Cue for Quiet | Thomas L. SherredThere seems no reason to doubt that modern fish, as a whole, quite equal in size the piscine fauna of any previous geological age.
Falling in Love | Grant AllenNow, it is among these piscine characteristics that we find the clue to where Man got his ears.
Today, with a multitude of the afflicted, I bathed in the piscine, a long trough filled with holy water from the grotto.
Possessed | Cleveland MoffettHe leaned forward and fixed the tabletop with a piscine stare.
Cue for Quiet | Thomas L. Sherred
British Dictionary definitions for piscine
/ (ˈpɪsaɪn) /
of, relating to, or resembling a fish
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Scientific definitions for piscine
[ pī′sēn′, pĭs′īn′ ]
Relating to or characteristic of fishes.
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