Crossword-Solution: SEXTANS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sextans | n. | A Roman coin, the sixth part of an as. |
| Sextans | n. | A constellation on the equator south of Leo; the Sextant. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SEXTANS | anagram | SNTAXES |
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| Constellation on equator. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SEXTANS (5)
They are known by the names Camelopardus, Canes Venatici, Coma Bernices, Lacerta, Leo Minor, Lynx, Monoceros, Sextans, and Vulpecula.
CHAPTER III FROM GEMINI TO LEO AND ROUND ABOUT 38 The zodiacal constellations Gemini, Cancer, and Leo, and their neighbors Auriga, the Lynx, Hydra, Sextans, and Coma Berenices.
Canes venatici (the Greyhounds), Lacerta (the Lizard), Leo minor (Little Lion), Lynx, Sextans Uraniae, Scutum or Clypeus Sobieskii (the shield of Sobieski), Vulpecula et Anser (Fox and Goose), Cerberus, Camelopardus (Giraffe), and Monoceros (Unicorn); the last two were originally due to Jacobus Bartschius.
SEXTANS, seks'tanz, _n._ an ancient Roman bronze coin, worth one-sixth of the as.--_adjs._ SEX'TANTAL; SEX'TIC, of the sixth degree.
Sed ut ostendemus, 1 denarius = 62 grana (Troy weight), hinc 62 grana = 1 denarius = 6 sextantes = 6 oboli; dividendo, 10⅓ grana = 1 sextans = 1 obolus.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1969).