Canopus

·noun A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo.

Canopus
Cănōpus, i, m., = Κάνωβος, rarely Κάνωπος; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 13. I An islandtown in Lower Egypt , on...

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