Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a note or passage that is played pizzicato;
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
(of instruments in the violin family) to be plucked with the finger;
ADVERB (1)
1.
with a light plucking staccato sound;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pizzicato \Piz`zi*ca"to\ [It., pinched.] (Mus.)
A direction to violinists to pluck the string with the
finger, instead of using the bow. (Abrev. pizz.)
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pizzicato
adv 1: with a light plucking staccato sound
adj 1: (of instruments in the violin family) to be plucked with
the finger
n 1: a note or passage that is played pizzicato