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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Serpentarius , 1, or Ophiuchus.
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Ophiuchus, Greek for 'serpent-bearer,' is a large constellation that falls along the celestial equator, and falls between Aquila, Serpens, and Hercules in the northwest center of the Milky Way.
What Is Ophiuchus? The Huffington Post 2011
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Ophiuchus, Greek for serpent-bearer, is a large constellation that falls...
What Is Ophiuchus? The Huffington Post 2011
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Ophiuchus, Greek for 'serpent-bearer,' is a large constellation that falls along the celestial equator, and falls between Aquila, Serpens, and Hercules in the northwest center of the Milky Way.
What Is Ophiuchus? The Huffington Post 2011
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Ophiuchus, Greek for 'serpent-bearer,' is a large constellation that falls...
What Is Ophiuchus? The Huffington Post 2011
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And here, again, some imagine that a sculptured representation of these imagined figures in the heavens may have been interpreted and expanded into the narrative of a contest between the man and the old serpent the dragon, Ophiuchus the serpent-bearer being supposed to typify the eventual defeat of the dragon.
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Ophiuchus, Greek for 'serpent-bearer,' is a large constellation that falls...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Virginia Bell 2011
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The name, "serpent-bearer," refers to the Rod of Asclepius, which was entwined with a single serpent, and became a universal symbol for physicians.
American Chronicle 2009
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Ophiuchus (also known as "serpent-bearer") is a large constellation located around the celestial equator. It is commonly represented as a man grasping the snake that is represented by the constellation Serpens.
Ophiuchus is located between Aquila, Serpens and Hercules, northwest of the center of the Milky Way.
June 28, 2015