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Canis Major
[ key-nis mey-jer ]
noun
- the Great Dog, a southern constellation between Puppis and Orion, containing Sirius, the Dog Star, the brightest of the stars.
Canis Major
/ ˈkeɪnɪs /
noun
- a constellation in the S hemisphere close to Orion, containing Sirius, the brightest star in the sky Also calledthe Great Dog
Canis Major
/ kā′nĭs /
- A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Orion. Canis Major (the Greater Dog) contains Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Canis Major1
Word History and Origins
Origin of Canis Major1
Example Sentences
Astronomers have also located smaller dwarf galaxies that have bumped into the Milky Way’s gravitational field and been torn apart, like Canis Major and Sagittarius.
Virgo-originating cosmic rays bend around in the galaxy’s twisting field lines so that they strike us from the direction of Canis Major, where Auger sees the center of its excess.
Remember the time they had with those awful five-legged things from Canis Major?
Sirius, with a few other stars of much less lustre, form the constellation of Canis Major.
There are a number of bright stars in the constellation of Canis Major.
On doing which we find, after all, they are not much more like sheep than Canis Major is like a dog.
He made up openly to Canis Major and was shortly on what might almost be considered terms of affection with Venus.
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