Meaning of CANICULAR
| Pronunciation: | | ku'nikyulur
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- [adj] relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star); "canicular days"
- [adj] of or relating to the dog days of summer; "the canicular heat of the Deep South"
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| | Definition: | | \Ca*nic"u*lar\, a. [L. canicularis; cf. F.
caniculaire.]
Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.
{Canicular days}, the dog days, See {Dog days}.
{Canicular year}, the Egyptian year, computed from one
heliacal rising of the Dog Star to another.
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| | Related Terms: | | aestival, arctic, ardent, autumn, autumnal, baking, blistering, boiling, boreal, broiling, brumal, burning, burning hot, ebullient, equinoctial, feverish, flushed, grilling, heated, hibernal, hiemal, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, like a furnace, like an oven, midsummer, midwinter, out of season, overheated, overwarm, parching, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, seasonal, seething, simmering, sizzling hot, smoking hot, solstitial, spring, springlike, sudorific, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, toasting, torrid, vernal, white-hot, winter, winterlike, wintery, wintry |
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