Pisces Definition

pīsēz
noun
A N constellation between Aries and Aquarius; the Fishes.
Webster's New World
The twelfth sign of the zodiac, entered by the sun about February 21
Webster's New World
A person born under the sign of Pisces.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • fish
  • Pisces the Fishes
pronoun

(astrology) The zodiac sign for the fish, ruled by Neptune and covering February 20 - March 20 (tropical astrology) or March 15 - April 14 (sidereal astrology).

Wiktionary

(astronomy) A constellation of the zodiac supposedly shaped like a pair of fish.

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Origin of Pisces

  • Middle English from Medieval Latin Piscēs from Latin piscēs pl. of piscis fish

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin piscÄ“s, the nominative plural of piscis (“fish").

    From Wiktionary

Pisces Sentence Examples

  • The constellation and sign of the zodiac known as "the fishes" is treated under Pisces.

  • In the Hunterian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1863, Huxley divided the Vertebrata into Mammals, Sauroids and Ichthyoids, the latter division containing the Amphibia and Pisces.

  • He maintained in the first that the world, created when the seven planets were in conjunction in the first degree of Aries, will come to an end at a like conjunction in the last degree of Pisces.

  • There are many intelligent Pisces walking the earth.

  • Latreille 6 published a new classification of the Vertebrata, which are primarily divided into Haematherma, containing the three classes of Maminifera, Monotremata and A y es; and Haemacryma, also containing three classes - Reptilia, Amphibia and Pisces.

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