piscatory
adjEtymology From Latin piscātor (“fisherman”), from piscis (“fish”).
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:
- Synonyms
- piscatorial
- Related terms
- piscatory ring