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  • noun astronomy Genitive form of Pisces used when naming stars, such as α Piscium.

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Examples

  • Decades earlier, in the system 107 Piscium, the lighthugger Gnostic Ascension is looking for trade opportunities.

    Absolution Gap - Alastair Reynolds Val 2009

  • I would probably buy a copy of "Historia Piscium" in English - "the History of Fishes", which is a notorious book in the history of science.

    Meme Penny 2008

  • I would probably buy a copy of "Historia Piscium" in English - "the History of Fishes", which is a notorious book in the history of science.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Penny 2008

  • Book de Piscium natura et praeparatione, which was printed at Rome in folio, 1554, with most elegant pictures, esteems carp no better than a slimy watery meat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • De multitudine Piscium, qui se proijciunt in aridam.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • De multitudine Piscium, qui se proijciunt in aridam.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • De multitudine Piscium, qui se proijciunt in aridam.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • [Munst] Piscium tanta est copia in hac Insula, vt ad altitudinem domorum sub aperto coelo vendedi exponantur.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • [Munst] Piscium tanta est copia in hac Insula, vt ad altitudinem domorum sub aperto coelo vendedi exponantur.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Spock, watching on his own screens the splendid destruction ravening in their wake, spoke softly to his computer, instructing it to notify the Interstellar Astronomical Union as soon as possible of a change in the status of 109 Piscium.

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

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