Pegasus
noun
a winged horse, created from the blood of Medusa, that opened the spring of Hippocrene with a stroke of its hoof, and that carried Bellerophon in his attack on the Chimera.
Pegasi
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genitive of
Pegasus.
Example Sentences
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Jerry Xuan, a 51 Pegasi b Fellow at UCLA, built sophisticated atmospheric models to compare with the telescope's spectra and determine whether sulfur was present.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026
Just inside, Max Streicher’s “Quadriga” stages massive billowing horses that call to mind wingless Pegasi the way they seem to gallop through the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024
One such detection — the world 51 Pegasi b in 1995 — led to the award of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2022
One of their stars, a sunlike star named 51 Pegasi, was moving to-and-fro with an amplitude of 50 meters per second, and a period of only 4.2 days.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 12, 2019
Low down towards the south-south-west is Fomalhaut, pointed to by β and α Pegasi.
From Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor
