About The Word Canicular
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Canicular
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What's The Definition Of Canicular?
[adj] relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star); "canicular days"
[adj] of or relating to the dog days of summer; "the canicular heat of the Deep South" Synonyms | Synonyms for Canicular: Related Terms | Find terms related to Canicular: aestival | arctic | ardent | autumn | autumnal | baking | blistering | boiling | boreal | broiling | brumal | burning | burning hot | ebullient | equinoctial | feverish | flushed | grilling | heated | hibernal | hiemal | hot | hot as fire | hot as hell | like a furnace | like an oven | midsummer | midwinter | out of season | overheated | overwarm | parching | piping hot | red-hot | roasting | scalding | scorching | searing | seasonal | seething | simmering | sizzling hot | smoking hot | solstitial | spring | springlike | sudorific | summer | summerlike | summerly | summery | sweating | sweaty | sweltering | sweltry | toasting | torrid | vernal | white-hot | winter | winterlike | wintery | wintry See Also | Canicular In Webster's Dictionary \Ca*nic"u*lar\, a. [L. canicularis; cf. F.
caniculaire.]
Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.
{Canicular days}, the dog days, See {Dog days}.
{Canicular year}, the Egyptian year, computed from one
heliacal rising of the Dog Star to another.
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