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Pisces

noun

The twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20. Synonyms: Fish, Pisces the Fishes.

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces. Synonym: Fish.

A large faint zodiacal constellation; between Aquarius and Aries.

A group of vertebrates comprising both cartilaginous and bony fishes and sometimes including the jawless vertebrates; not used technically.

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"Pisces" Quotes from Famous Books

... elastic airbladders, games of hazard, catapults. They comprised astronomical kaleidoscopes exhibiting the twelve constellations of the zodiac from Aries to Pisces, miniature mechanical orreries, arithmetical gelatine lozenges, geometrical to correspond with zoological biscuits, globemap playing balls, historically ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... were poor in flesh, while the seas and rivers abounded with fish in good condition, the ancient priests, making a virtue of necessity, enjoined a diet principally of fish, and for that reason placed the constellation Pisces at the point in the Zodiac in which the Lenten season anciently began; which, without regard to the day of the week, was always observed on the 15th day of February, the name of that month having been derived from the Februa, or feast of purification ...

— Astral Worship • J. H. Hill

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