Nebula

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A cloudy appearance in the urine.

II. Nebula ·noun A white spot or a slight opacity of the cornea.

III. Nebula ·noun A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. True nebulae are gaseous; but very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope.

Related Words

nebula
nĕbŭla, ae, f. [like nubes; Sanscr. nabhas; Lat. aër, caelum; Gr. νεφέλη], mist, vapor, fog, smoke, ...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
nebula
nebula ae, f NEB-, mist, vapor, fog, smoke, exhalation : tenuis, V.: saeptus nebulā, V.: nebulae p...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary
nebula
An old term for a cluster of stars looking like a cloudy spot till separated by telescopic power; bu...

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