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pisciferous

pisciferous adjective: yielding fish.

Adjective

pisciferous (comparative more pisciferous, superlative most pisciferous)

  1. Yielding fish.
    • Lately we bent our feet to the banks of this classic rivulet, which is now neither navigable, sanitary, nor pisciferous […]1893, Richard Hisco Whitworth, History of Mansfield

Forms of pisciferous

comparativemore pisciferous
superlativemost pisciferous

Origin of pisciferous

From pisci- + -ferous.

Questions about pisciferous

What does pisciferous mean?
Pisciferous means yielding fish.
What part of speech is pisciferous?
Pisciferous is an adjective.

Words near pisciferous in the dictionary

  1. piscidins
  2. Piscids
  3. piscies
  4. piscifauna
  5. piscifaunal
  6. pisciferous
  7. pisciform
  8. piscina
  9. piscinae
  10. piscinal
  11. piscinas

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