Definition of Ichthyic

1. a. Like, or pertaining to, fishes.

Definition of Ichthyic

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or like fish; piscine. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ichthyic

1. pertaining to fishes [adj]

Medical Definition of Ichthyic

1. Like, or pertaining to, fishes. Origin: Gr, a fish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ichthyic

ichoroid
ichorous
ichorous pus
ichorrhemia
ichorrhoea
ichors
ichs
ichthammol
ichthic
ichthidin
ichthin
ichthulin
ichthulins
ichthus
ichthy-
ichthyic (current term)
ichthyism
ichthyismus
ichthyo-
ichthyoacanthotoxism
ichthyocol
ichthyocolla
ichthyocoprolite
ichthyodorulite
ichthyodorulites
ichthyofauna
ichthyofaunae
ichthyofaunal
ichthyofaunas

Literary usage of Ichthyic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepsis of Stromness by Hugh Miller (1875)
"It is not uninstructive to mark how slowly and gradually ihc naturalists have been groping their way to a right classifi cation in the ichthyic department ..."

2. A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Angling Book Plates: Forming the Collection by Daniel Butler Fearing (1918)
"US Pictorial, ichthyic. A hooked trout leaping in a rocky stream. ... US Pictorial, ichthyic. The frame of the plate shows a procession of trout, ..."

3. A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Angling Book Plates: Held by the Grolier by Daniel Butler Fearing, Grolier Club (1918)
"US Pictorial, ichthyic. A hooked trout leaping in a rocky stream. ... US Pictorial, ichthyic. The frame of the plate shows a procession of trout, ..."

4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1856)
"Above this gray flagstone formation lies the Upper Old Red Sandstone, with its peculiar group of ichthyic organisms, none of which seem specifically ..."

5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1856)
"Above this gray flagstone formation lies the Upper Old Red Sandstone, with its peculiar group of ichthyic organisms, none of which seem specifically ..."

6. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1892)
"In strong contrast to this the ichthyic fauna of the Harding sandstone appears to ... The vertical range of the ichthyic fauna is extended downward from the ..."

7. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"From the Jurassic deposits no remains of fishes are known, but in the cretaceous ichthyic life assumed many and various forms ; and the first ..."

8. The Old Red Sandstone: To which is Appended a Series of Geological Papers by Hugh Miller (1858)
"True, during these ages the reptile also existed, but in such scanty proportions, that while the Coal Measures have yielded their ichthyic remains by ..."

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