| 单词 | piscatorial |
| 释义 | piscatorial (once / 55231 pages) adj Teach a man to fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to excel in the piscatorial arts, and he eats for a lifetime. Piscatorial means having to do with fishing. Piscis is Latin for fish, the name of the astrological sign meaning "fish" (spelled Pisces, the Latin plural), and also the root of piscatorial. Think of the word as a cousin to agricultural. If we lived in a place that relied as heavily on fisheries as we do on farms, piscatorial might be as common a word as agricultural. WORD FAMILYpiscatorial: piscatorially USAGE EXAMPLESRich then used a gelatine sponge to control bleeding during the tricky piscatorial procedure, which lasted for 45 minutes. Reuters(Sep 16, 2014) A few I recommend are Tyee Charters, Spottails Charters and Bob Ball at Piscatorial Pursuits, who runs river float trips along the Olympic Peninsula. New York Times(Oct 19, 2012) We conclude this class of epitaphs with a couple of piscatorial examples. Various, Curious Epitaphs(2012) adj relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing Syn piscatory |
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