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piscine

adj
/ˈpɪsaɪn/UK/ˈpaɪsin/US/piːˈsiːn/

Etymology

From Late Latin piscinus or from Latin piscis (“fish”) + -ine.

  1. borrowed from piscinus

Definitions

  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fish

    Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fish; ichthyic.

    • In the ancient Middle East certain cults had piscine deities, or deities with fish attributes of various kinds.
    • 2009, David Quammen, Where the Salmon Rule, National Geographic (August 2009), page 40, At age four he caught his first fish and was evermore fascinated by things piscine; […]

  2. A public bath or swimming pool in France.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for piscine. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA