Fornax
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Fornax
< Latin: literally, furnace, kiln, oven
Example Sentences
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FL.1.5.1 is an alias for XBB.1.9.2.1.5.1, which descends from Omicron and is colloquially called Fornax.
From Salon • Aug. 28, 2023
Infections from Fornax, officially known as FL 1.5.1, are also rising across the country.
From Reuters • Aug. 17, 2023
The researchers focused on two regions of the vast sky: A section of the Ursa Minor constellation and another region near the Fornax cluster.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2023
This image is the result of an 11-day-long observation with the Hubble Space Telescope of a tiny region of sky, located toward the constellation Fornax near the south celestial pole.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
This, Evans told me, was a star in a constellation called Fornax from a galaxy known to astronomy as NGC1365.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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