pisciculture
/ˈpɪsɪˌkʌltʃə
/noun [mass noun]
The controlled breeding and rearing of fish.Dr Dharmakanta, famous surgeon, gregarious and home loving, knew everything from pisciculture in aquariums to baking cakes and pizzas, but not how to fly a kite.
Derivatives
piscicultural
- The invention relates to a method for modulating the sedimentation rate of piscicultural dry pellets.
pisciculturist
- These structures, often put together by the pisciculturist himself, suffer from a number of drawbacks.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Latin piscis 'fish' + culture, on the pattern of words such as agriculture.