PROCYON


Meaning of PROCYON in English

/proh"see on'/ , n. Astron.

a first-magnitude star in the constellation Canis Minor.

[ 1650-60; Prokýon name of a star, equiv. to pro- PRO- 2 + kýon dog (see HOUND); so called because it rises just before Sirius, the Dog Star ]

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