Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Tucana and Mensa.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A southern constellation introduced in the sixteenth century. It lies south of Eridanus, Horologium, and Reticulum, and contains three stars of the third magnitude.
- noun A genus of venomous sea-snakes, type of a family Hydridæ: now disused, the genus being termed Hydrophis, and the family Hydrophidæ.
- noun [lowercase] Some fabulous or undetermined water-snake.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Astron.) A constellation of the southern hemisphere, near the south pole.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun astronomy A
winter constellation of thesouthern sky, said to resemble a smallserpent . It lies between the constellationsMensa andTucana . It is not to be confused with the constellationHydra .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a constellation in the southern hemisphere near the south celestial pole
Etymologies
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Examples
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Magnetar wanted to name the CDO after a small constellation in the southern sky called Hydrus, which means "male water snake."
The Big Picture Guest Author 2010
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( "Hydrus," not "Hydra" - Hydra is six R.A. hours over and farther north.)
Time For The Stars Heinlein, Robert A. 1956
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A planning submission was expected to be sent to West Berkshire Council at the end of May for the new "Hydrus" hydro-dynamics building.
British Blogs Richard Willis's Blog 2010
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West Berkshire Council has confirmed that its Eastern Area Planning Committee will consider the planning application for Project Hydrus at a meeting on Wednesday.
Firefighters 'lost control' of blaze at Aldermaston nuclear weapons base Jamie Doward 2010
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The release of the logs comes as the local council is expected to give planning approval this week for Project Hydrus, the next generation of thermonuclear warheads that will cost hundreds of millions of pounds to develop.
Firefighters 'lost control' of blaze at Aldermaston nuclear weapons base Jamie Doward 2010
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Argo-Navis, and joined the chase against the starry Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and the Flying Fish.
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Dryus, city in southern Italy, called also Hydrus, V. xv.
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Looking back, we saw, low down, parts of the Phoenix and the Crane; higher up, the Toucan, Hydrus, and Pavo.
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder James De Mille
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And below this gulf the first town is Dryus, [80] which is now called Hydrus.
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And beneath the effulgent Antarctic skies I have boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase against the starry Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and the Flying Fish.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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