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piscatory

piscatory adjective: of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.

Adjective

piscatory (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
    • The Ribble and the Aire roll down, as yet unpolluted by dyers' chemistry; tenanted by merry trouts and piscatory otters.1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “5, "Twelfth Century"”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)
  2. Of or pertaining to fish; piscine.
    • The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped in it.1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

piscatory meaning in Tamil

piscatory in Tamil

மீனவரைச் சார்ந்த, மீன்பிடிப்பதற்கு உரிய

Synonyms of piscatory

Origin of piscatory

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

Phrases with piscatory

Questions about piscatory

What does piscatory mean?
Piscatory means of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
What is piscatory in Tamil?
Piscatory in Tamil is மீனவரைச் சார்ந்த, மீன்பிடிப்பதற்கு உரிய. See Piscatory meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is piscatory?
Piscatory is an adjective.

Words near piscatory in the dictionary

  1. piscatorialist
  2. piscatorialists
  3. piscatorially
  4. piscatorian
  5. piscators
  6. piscatory
  7. piscatory ring
  8. piscatory rings
  9. piscatrix
  10. Piscean
  11. Pisceans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piscatory (page history and authors); piscatory (Tamil 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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