单词 | southern crown |
释义 | Southern Crownn. Astronomy. The constellation Corona Australis. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Corona Australis South Crown1556 wheel of Ixion1590 Southern Crown1594 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iv. xix. f. 222 The Southerne Crowne, called Corona Australis. 1659 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. 71 The most Southerly Star of the Southern Crown. ?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 487 The ancient Constellations [include]..Corona Australis, The Southern Crown,..[and] Piscis Australis, The Southern Fish. 1797 S. Vince Compl. Syst. Astron. I. 504 (table) Corona Australis..The Southern Crown. 1881 Frank Leslie's Sunday Mag. 10 199/2 There rose another [constellation]—the Southern Crown, that glorious diadem of light. 1928 Sci. News Let. 22 Dec. 325/1 This nucleus is in the same direction as the constellations of..the Southern Crown, the Altar, the Rule, and the Centaur. 2007 M. D. Heifetz & W. Tirion Walk through Southern Sky (ed. 2) ii. 82 Among the desert nomads of ancient Arabia the circle of stars sometimes called the Southern Crown was called the Ostrich Nest. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1594 |
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