Urinant
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Urinant is an adjective meaning (heraldry): Of a fish: oriented vertically, with the head to base and tail to chief, as if diving.
Meaning
(heraldry): Of a fish: oriented vertically, with the head to base and tail to chief, as if diving.
Example Sentences
On a chapeau gules, guarded ermine, a gurnet (fish) urinant proper.
2) gules, in bend two fish, urinant and hauriant, respectively, argent, their fins "dark azure" (sic).
Azure, three trout interlaced in triangle: the chiefmost naiant, one urinant in bend, and one haurient in bend sinister, all argent.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hauriant, natant, naiant, counternaiant, marined, ingulphant.
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