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CANIS

Volume 6 · 42 words · 1860 Edition

or Dog. See MAMMALIA.

Canis Major, the Great Dog, a constellation of the southern hemisphere, below Orion's feet.

Canis Minor, the Little Dog, a constellation of the northern hemisphere; called also by the Greeks Procyon, and by the Latins Antecanis and Canicula.