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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Aquarius and Grus.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. An ancient southern constellation, the Southern Fish. It contains the 1.3 magnitude star Fomal-haut, which is 30 degrees south of the equator, and is in opposition on the 3d of September. The figure represents a fish which swallows the water poured out of the vase by Aquarius.

Wiktionary

  1. n. astronomy An autumn constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a fish. It contains the star Fomalhaut.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin piscis austrīnus, "southern fish". (Wiktionary)
  2. New Latin Piscis Austrīnus : Latin piscis, fish + Latin austrīnus, southern. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. Grus
  1. Fomalhaut
  1. fish

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