Lesser Dog

American  

noun

Astronomy.

1. the constellation Canis Minor.

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Example Sentences

PROCYON. α Canis minoris, the principal star of the Lesser Dog.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Coming up the eastern sky are Orion, Gemini, Sirius, the Lesser Dog.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

Just further from the Pole than Gemini, is the constellation of Canis Minor, or the Lesser Dog.

From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Dolmage, Cecil Goodrich Julius

It is situated in the right side of the Lesser Dog.

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

One of the two ancient constellations lying south of the zodiac, known as Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog.

From A Child's Garden of Verses by Mars, E. (Ethel)