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palinurus
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun palinurus has 1 sense
- palinurus(n = noun.animal) genus palinurus - type genus of the family Palinuridae; Array is a kind of arthropod genus
is a member of family palinuridae, palinuridae
CIDE DICTIONARY
palinurus, n. [So called from L. Palinurus , the pilot of Æneas.].
An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass. [1913 Webster]
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