Canopus

2 definitions found

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

  Canopus \Ca*no"pus\, n. [L. Canopus, fr. Gr. ?, town of Egypt.]
     (Astron.)
     A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation
     Argo.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Canopus
       n : supergiant star 650 light years from Earth; second brightest
           star in the sky