Marined
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Marined is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of marine.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of marine.
More Meanings
- (chiefly heraldry) Having the lower part of the body like a fish.
Example Sentences
Near-synonym: mer-
He was a marined, a merman, neither one thing nor the other.
The menagerie of blazonry has been enlarged by representing nearly all of the animals at times with fish-tails, when they are said to be marined.
Some other of the marined animals deserve special attention. Sea-horses in the earliest heraldic examples closely resemble the queer fish known by that name (the hippocampus), but classic art had furnished quite another type: the forequarters of a horse, with mane and hoofs, and the hindquarters replaced by a fish's tail.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include seaman, mariner, seafarer, sailor, maritime, ocean.
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