Crossword-Solution: PROCYON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Procyon | n. | A star of the first magnitude in the constellation Canis Minor, or the Little Dog. |
| Procyon | n. | A genus of mammals including the raccoon. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “PROCYON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Canis Minor star | 1 answer |
| Canis Minor's brightest | 1 answer |
| First-magnitude star in Canis Minor. | 1 answer |
| Huge star in Canis Minor. | 1 answer |
| Star in Canis Minor. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AMCEZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PROCYON (5)
Two other plantigrade genera, Procyon and Gulo, though often kept tame in Paraguay, never breed there.
Now glows the Ethiop maiden's sire; Now Procyon rages all ablaze; The Lion maddens in his ire, As suns bring back the sultry days: The shepherd with his weary sheep Seeks out the streamlet and the trees, Silvanus' lair: the still banks sleep Untroubled by the wandering breeze.
Rigel, the upper right corner, down to the left, the Dog-star; up to Betelguese, down to the left again to Procyon, and up to the brightest of all--the stranger, not usually there--” Spenski clutched him.
Later he said: “I adhere to the conviction that Procyon and Sirius form real binary systems, consisting of a visible and an invisible star.
The moon in her third quarter--the clusters of the Hyades and Pleiades, with the planet Mars between--in full crossing sprawl in the sky the great Egyptian X, (Sirius, Procyon, and the main stars in the constellations of the Ship, the Dove, and of Orion;) just north of east Bootes, and in his knee Arcturus, an hour high, mounting the heaven, ambitiously large and sparkling, as if he meant to challenge with Sirius the stellar supremacy.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1959–2010).