Crossword-Solution: CYGNUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cygnus | n. | A constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, Lyra; the Swan. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CYGNUS | anagram | SCUNGY |
We have 15 clues for the answer “CYGNUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Neighbor of Lyra and Pegasus | 1 answer |
| Prominent northern constellation, the Swan | 1 answer |
| SWAN (L) | 1 answer |
| Stellar swan | 1 answer |
| a genus of Anatidae | 1 answer |
| contains a black hole | 1 answer |
| star SUN NOVA ASTERISK swan | 1 answer |
| swan Constellations | 1 answer |
| swan star SUN NOVA ASTERISK | 1 answer |
| SWAN (astron.) | 2 answers |
| SWAN (genus) | 2 answers |
| Swan constellation | 2 answers |
| Constellations swan | 11 answers |
| Swan ___. | 29 answers |
| A | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with CYGNUS (5)
XXXIV "He, with his better sceptre well contented, Shall rule the city, seated by the streams, Where Phoebus to his plaintive lyre lamented The son, ill-trusted with the father's beams; Where Cygnus spread his pinions, and the scented Amber was wept, as fabling poet dreams.
XIX Argier's perfidious king to Isabel More than a thousand times assurance swore, In case that water rendered him what fell Achilles and what Cygnus were of yore.
Sclater informs me, is believed to be nothing more than a variety of the domestic swan (Cygnus olor).) It may be worth while to illustrate the above three modes by which, in the present class, the two sexes and the young may have come to resemble each other, by the curious case of the genus Passer.
Will you show me the double star you said I should see? With the greatest pleasure,--he said, and proceeded to wheel the ponderous dome, and then to adjust the instrument, I think to the one in Andromeda, or that in Cygnus, but I should not know one of them from the other.
The glorious Orion, Canis Major containing the brightest star in the heavens, Cassiopeia, Perseus, Cygnus, and Lyra with its bright-blue Vega, not to mention such constellations as the Southern Cross, all lie in or near the Milky Way.
Quotes with CYGNUS (1)
I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more powerful radio telescopes, was the recognition, in 1952, that the intense source in the constellation of Cygnus was a distant galaxy — 1000 million light years away. This discovery showed that some galaxies were capable of producing radio emission about a million times more intense than that from our own Galaxy or the Andromeda nebula, and the mechanisms responsible were quite …
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1998–2016).