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cyanide fishing

cyanide fishing noun: the collection of live fish, generally for an aquarium, by spraying a sodium cyanide mixture into the water in order to incapacitate the fish.

Noun

cyanide fishing (uncountable)

  1. The collection of live fish, generally for an aquarium, by spraying a sodium cyanide mixture into the water in order to incapacitate the fish.

Questions about cyanide fishing

What does cyanide fishing mean?
Cyanide fishing means the collection of live fish, generally for an aquarium, by spraying a sodium cyanide mixture into the water in order to incapacitate the fish.
What part of speech is cyanide fishing?
Cyanide fishing is a noun.

Words near cyanide fishing in the dictionary

  1. cyanic acids
  2. cyanid
  3. cyanidation
  4. cyanidations
  5. cyanide
  6. cyanide fishing
  7. cyanide process
  8. cyanide processes
  9. cyanided
  10. cyanidelike
  11. cyanides

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