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piscatorial

piscatorial adjective: of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.

Adjective

piscatorial (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
    • There should be no plea put in by him in his absences, that he had only gone to catch a few fish, when his intentions had been other than piscatorial.c. 1867, Anthony Trollope, chapter 41, in The Claverings
    • That a lucy or luce is the mature pike, every piscatorial schoolboy knows.1895, The Gentleman's Magazine, January to June issue, pg. 38
  2. Of or pertaining to fish; piscine.
    • The tropical boxfish may not look the sleekest or sexiest of piscatorial creatures, but the Mercedes team knew better.2005 November 25, “Mercedes goes back to nature for dynamic inspiration”, in Times Online, London, retrieved 02 Jul 2007
    • There are dozens of photographs, but it is not the piscatorial pornography that makes this book so exciting so much as the stories Mr Buller has unearthed.2007 December 22, “Atlantic salmon: Ruler of the river”, in The Economist, volume 385, number 8560, page 139

piscatorial meaning in Tamil and Bengali

piscatorial in Tamil

மீன் பிடித்தல் தோய்ந்து பழகிய

piscatorial in Bengali

মাছ ধরা

Examples of piscatorial in a sentence

  • Jane lined up the girls and called out, "Dive!" The girls dived - mermaids for a piscatorial pageant.1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 184:
  • The theme is unashamedly piscatorial – there are models of trout, pictures of trout, books about trout, a cabinet full of fly-tying gear.2015 April 2, Tom Fort, “Trout fishing in Chilean Patagonia [print version: Gone fishing – and waking up in heaven, 4 April 2015, p. T6]”...

Synonyms of piscatorial

Origin of piscatorial

From Latin piscātor (“fisherman”), from piscis (“fish”).

Words formed from piscatorial

Words that rhyme with piscatorial

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Questions about piscatorial

What does piscatorial mean?
Piscatorial means of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
What is piscatorial in Tamil?
Piscatorial in Tamil is மீன் பிடித்தல் தோய்ந்து பழகிய. See Piscatorial meaning in Tamil.
How do you use piscatorial in a sentence?
Jane lined up the girls and called out, "Dive!" The girls dived - mermaids for a piscatorial pageant.
What part of speech is piscatorial?
Piscatorial is an adjective.

Words near piscatorial in the dictionary

  1. piscations
  2. piscatologist
  3. piscatologists
  4. piscatology
  5. piscator
  6. piscatorial
  7. piscatorialist
  8. piscatorialists
  9. piscatorially
  10. piscatorian
  11. piscators

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piscatorial (page history and authors); piscatorial (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); piscatorial (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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