Canicular

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Canicular \Ca*nic"u*lar\, a. [L. canicularis; cf. F.
     caniculaire.]
     Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Canicular days}, the dog days, See {Dog days}.


  
     {Canicular year}, the Egyptian year, computed from one
        heliacal rising of the Dog Star to another.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  canicular
       adj 1: of or relating to the dog days of summer; "the canicular
              heat of the Deep South"
       2: relating to or especially immediately preceding or following
          the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star); "canicular
          days"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "canicular":
     aestival, arctic, ardent, autumn, autumnal, baking, blistering,
     boiling, boreal, broiling, brumal, burning, burning hot, ebullient,
     equinoctial, feverish, flushed, grilling, heated, hibernal, hiemal,
     hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, like a furnace, like an oven,
     midsummer, midwinter, out of season, overheated, overwarm,
     parching, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching,
     searing, seasonal, seething, simmering, sizzling hot, smoking hot,
     solstitial, spring, springlike, sudorific, summer, summerlike,
     summerly, summery, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, toasting,
     torrid, vernal, white-hot, winter, winterlike, wintery, wintry