Centaurus Definition

sĕn-tôrəs
noun
A S constellation between Hydra and Crux, containing the bright star Alpha Centauri; the Centaur.
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pronoun

(astronomy) A spring constellation of the northern sky (autumn of the southern sky) with the outline of a centaur. It includes the stars Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri.

Wiktionary

Origin of Centaurus

  • From Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kentauros, “centaur”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin Centaurus centaur centaur

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Centaurus Sentence Examples

  • Stick-insects are intolerant of cold, and attain their largest size and greatest profusion of species in the tropics, one West African species, Palophus centaurus, reaching a length of 9 in.

  • In this enumeration Serpens is included in Serpentarius and Lupus in Centaurus; these two constellations were separated by Hipparchus and, later, by Ptolemy.

  • Centaurus c. Republicans by pressing rare quantitative experiment also verified the.

  • The image captured by this WFPC2 parallel observation is a typical Milky Way star field in the constellation Centaurus.

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Words Starting With

CCECEN

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SUSRUS

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