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Pisces

[pahy-seez, pis-eez] / ˈpaɪ siz, ˈpɪs iz /


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Visible to the naked eye, it will look like an non-twinkling star in the constellation of Pisces.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2025

“I am a Pisces and water is my natural element,” said Paola Navone about Oblò, her nautical-inspired lighting for the Italian company Lodes.

From Seattle Times May 28, 2024

It orbits a cool red dwarf star called Gliese 12, which is almost 40 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pisces.

From Science Daily May 23, 2024

It may be the sensitive Pisces in me, but I’ll be thinking about tauntaun guts whenever I get around to watching “The Revenant.”

From Salon May 4, 2024

The sun sank below Ladle Hill and the autumn stars began to shine in the darkening east—Perseus and the Pleiades, Cassiopeia, faint Pisces and the great square of Pegasus.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

This impecuniosity was due to the fact that a book by Willoughby, entitled "De Historia Piscium," had been recently printed by the society at great expense.

From Great Astronomers by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir

Piscium et summa genus haesit ulmo . . . for twenty seconds, rubbing his eyes, he stared at the apparition as it very slowly faded.

From Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

“Travelling westward towards the star γ Piscium until the beginning of May, and then turning eastward again, it will travel back through the constellations Cetus, Orion, Monoceros, Hydra, and Sextans.”

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard

In the star called 35 Piscium, the small star shows a peculiar snuffy-brown tinge.

From Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals by Mitchell, Maria

"Oh yes, now I can do," said Tom; "it was tigris, vulpes, I'd forgotten: ut tigris, volupes; et Piscium."

From The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George




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