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ALDEBARAN

Volume 1 · 48 words · 1797 Edition

in astronomy, a star of the first magnitude, called in English the bull's eye, as making the eye of the constellation Taurus. Its longitude is 6 deg. 32 min. 9 sec. of Gemini, and its latitude 5 deg. 29 min. 40 sec. south.

ALDER-TREE, in botany. See BETULA.