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Great Dog

American  

noun

Astronomy.
  1. the constellation Canis Major.


Great Dog British  

noun

  1. the English name for Canis Major

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Standing by the Hunter’s foot, the Great Dog is an easy-to-find constellation visible from most areas of the world, thanks to being positioned just south of the celestial equator.

From National Geographic Aug. 23, 2023

Under the headline “Arrival of the Great Dog Judge,” one article reported that he had crossed the Atlantic “and is now quartered at the Fifth-Avenue Hotel.”

From New York Times Feb. 13, 2015

It was a three-quarter-page colored panel titled The Great Dog Show in M'Googan's Avenue, and peopled with alley cats, stray hounds and slum bums in high-society clothes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Situated in the mouth of the Great Dog.

From A Field Book of the Stars by Olcott, William Tyler

It forms part of the constellation of the Great Dog, and lies to the south of Orion near the extreme limit of our vision into the Southern hemisphere in our latitudes.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.

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