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piscation

piscation noun: fishing; fishery.

Noun

piscation (usually uncountable, plural piscations)

  1. (obsolete, usually) fishing; fishery
    • There are extant of his in Greek, four books of Cynegeticks or Venation, five of Halieuticks or Piscation, commented and published by Ritterhusius; wherein describing beasts of venery and fishes1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Forms of piscation

pluralpiscations

Origin of piscation

From Latin piscatio, from piscari (“to fish”).

Questions about piscation

What does piscation mean?
Piscation means fishing; fishery.
What part of speech is piscation?
Piscation is a noun.
What is the plural of piscation?
The plural of piscation is piscations.

Words near piscation in the dictionary

  1. Piscataquis County
  2. Piscatawa
  3. Piscatawas
  4. Piscataway
  5. Piscataways
  6. piscation
  7. piscations
  8. piscatologist
  9. piscatologists
  10. piscatology
  11. piscator

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