Southern Fishn.
/ˌsʌðn ˈfɪʃ/, U.S. /ˌsəðərn ˈfɪʃ/ Astronomy.
The constellation Piscis Austrinus.
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1594 T. Blundeville Exercises xxiv. xlii. f. 342 The hinder part of the Southern Fish hauing diuers starres without name.
1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation i. 92/1 The Southern Fish, a Constellation of 12 Stars, of which one is of the first Magnitude; the rest all small.
?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 487 The ancient Constellations [include]..Corona Australis, The Southern Crown,..[and] Piscis Australis, The Southern Fish.
1877 St. Nicholas 4 735/2 Piscis Australis, or the Southern Fish, is chiefly remarkable for the bright star Fomalhaut in the fish's mouth.
1955 Sci. News Let. 24 Sept. 202/1 Low in the south is a fourth, Fomalhaut, in Piscis Austrinus, the southern fish, but because it is so near the horizon its brilliance is somewhat dimmed.
2009 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 29 Aug. 54 Another of the bright stars in the spring evening sky is Fomalhaut, the brightest star in Piscis Austrinus (The Southern Fish).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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