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zodiacal

adjective/zoʊˈdaɪ.ə.kəl/

What It Means

Of or pertaining to the zodiac.

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Zodiacal in Context

“For several evenings the pale twinkling of the somber zodiacal stars lighted up the west side of the heavens for some time after the sun had set.”

— 1912, Henryk Sienkiewicz, chapter 14, in Mary Webb Artois, transl., Through the Desert, New York: Benziger Brothers

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From Latin zōdiacus + -al. By surface analysis, zodiac + -al.

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