| 单词 | leo minor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLeo Minor 1. The Lion, the Zodiacal constellation lying between Cancer and Virgo. Also, the fifth sign of the Zodiac (named from this constellation), entered by the sun about the 21st of July. Leo Minor, a modern constellation containing stars of minor magnitude, lying between the Great Bear and Leo. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > zodiacal constellation > [noun] > Leo Leoc1400 lionc1405 the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > particular signs > [noun] > Leo Leoc1400 lionc1405 the world > the universe > constellation > Northern constellations > [noun] > Leo Minor Leo Minor1797 Little Lion1868 a1000 Ags. Man. Astron. in Pop. Treat. Sci. (1841) 7 An þæra tacna ys ge-haten aries,..fifta leo; syxta virgo. c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §6. 20 Thus euery degree of aries bi ordre is nadir to euery degree of libra by ordre &..leo to aquarie. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Lion, a Lyon; also, the (Zodiacall) Signe Leo. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 676 Thence down amaine By Leo and the Virgin and the Scales. View more context for this quotation 1797 Encycl. Brit. II. 548/1 Hevelius's Constellations made out of the unformed stars. Lynx, The Lynx..Leo minor, The Little Lion. 1797 Encycl. Brit. II. 568/1 When the sun is in Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, and Virgo, the north pole of the earth is enlightened by the sun. 1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. 135 The pole of the globe being represented by a point in the constellation Leo. < as lemmas |
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