zodiacal
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Under especially dark skies, sunlight scattered by this dust can be seen shortly after sunset or before sunrise as a faint glow called zodiacal light.
From Science Daily • Dec. 6, 2025
As an astrologer, it’s most ethical to view the zodiacal constellations with a lovingly dispassionate eye.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2024
I was doing my graduate work in infrared astronomy at Imperial College in the 1970s, and one of the professors had been doing spectroscopic studies of zodiacal dust.
From National Geographic • Oct. 4, 2023
It’s also moving through the densest part of a region called the zodiacal cloud, a thick disk of space particles that permeates our Solar System.
From The Verge • Jun. 20, 2022
The root of the word is that for zoo, because the zodiacal constellations, like Leo, are mainly fancied to be animals.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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