fish-goat

English

Noun

fish-goat (plural fish-goats)

  1. (mythology) A sea goat (upper half goat, lower half fish).
    Synonym: goat-fish
    • 1862, [Frances Rolleston], Mazzaroth, or, The Constellations, London: Rivingtons, page 129:
      The figure of the Fish-goat and names appropriate to it are found in all ancient zodiacs.
    • 1881, J[ohn] H[enry] Broome, The Astral Origin of the Emblems, the Zodiacal Signs, and the Astral Hebrew Alphabet, as Shown in 'The Astronomical Register', London: Edward Stanford, page 7:
      Hence the two other names from very early antiquity for the sign, "the sea-goat" and "the fish-goat." The union of the goat and fish too is observed in the Dendera planisphere.
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