Canopus
pronunciation
How to pronounce Canopus in British English:
UK [kəˈnəupəs]
How to pronounce Canopus in American English:
US [kəˈnopəs]
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- Noun:
- supergiant star 650 light years from Earth; second brightest star in the sky
Word Origin
- Canopus (n.)
- bright southern star, 1550s, ultimately from Greek Kanopos, Kanobos perhaps from Egyptian Kahi Nub "golden earth." The association with "weight" found in the name of the star in some northern tongues may reflect the fact that it never rises far above the horizon in those latitudes. Also the name of a town in ancient lower Egypt (famous for its temple of Serapis), hence canopic jar, canopic vase, which often held the entrails of embalmed bodies (1878).
Example
- 1. Brilliant canopus , second brightest star in the night , and our neighboring galaxies the large and small magellanic clouds , are also included in the scene .
- 2. The effects of conspecific adult tunic extracts and larval tissue extracts in different concentrations and the effects of different larval density on settlement and metamorphosis in the styela canopus larvae were investigated .
- 3. The differences between the chemical constituents of the two coexisted tunicates , styela plicata and styela canopus , were also discussed preliminary .