Ursa Major
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Etymology [edit]
From Latin ursa maior, the "greater bear"
Proper noun [edit]
- (astronomy) A large circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a bear. It includes the familiar asterism the Big Dipper and the stars Mizar, Dubhe, and Alkaid.
- 1605 — Shakespeare, King Lear, i 2
- My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under ursa major.
- 1605 — Shakespeare, King Lear, i 2
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large circumpolar constellation of the northern sky
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