Definition of Canicula. Meaning of Canicula. Synonyms of Canicula

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Definition of Canicula

Canicula
Dog Star Dog" Star` Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Major, or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in the heavens; -- called also Canicula, and, in astronomical charts, [alpha] Canis Majoris. See Dog days.

Meaning of Canicula from wikipedia

- Romans knew these days as dies caniculares, and the star Sirius was called Canicula, "little dog". The excessive panting of dogs in hot weather was thought...
- The small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula), also known as the sandy dogfish, lesser-spotted dogfish, rough-hound or mor**** (in Scotland and Cornwall)...
- Paracanthocobitis canicula also known as the houndstooth zipper loach is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Paracanthocobitis. This species is known...
- acanthias), starry smooth-hound (Mustelus asterias), rough-hound (Scyliorhinus canicula) and bull huss (Scyliorhinus stellaris). Rock salmon is consumed in many...
- wide, which lies at the north end of Detroit Plateau and flows from Mount Canicula eastward into Prince Gustav Channel on the south side of Trinity Peninsula...
- Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera is a semi-autobiographical work by Norma Elía Cantú, published in 1995 by Albuquerque: University of New...
- Jude from the King James Bible. Carson's first book of poetry – 1984's Canicula di Anna – garnered her first literary prize: the Quarterly Review of Literature...
- has very similar reproductive traits to the small-spotted catshark (S. canicula). The chain catshark is found in the Northwest Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico...
- becoming the star Canicula, which was the Romans' name for Sirius, although Hyginus himself claimed that the Gr****s used Procyon for Canicula. In second-century...
- in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean Small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula), the most common dogfish in the northeastern Atlantic Sleeper sharks (Somniosidae)...