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CYGNUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of Anatidae
Synonyms:
Cygnus; genus Cygnus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Cygnus" is a kind of...):
bird genus (a genus of birds)
Meronyms (members of "Cygnus"):
Cygnus olor; mute swan (soundless Eurasian swan; commonly domesticated)
Cygnus cygnus; whooper; whooper swan (common Old World swan noted for its whooping call)
Cygnus columbianus; tundra swan (swan that nests in tundra regions of the New and Old Worlds)
Cygnus buccinator; trumpeter; trumpeter swan (large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry)
black swan; Cygnus atratus (large Australian swan having black plumage and a red bill)
Holonyms ("Cygnus" is a member of...):
Anatidae; family Anatidae (swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip: swans; geese; ducks)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A constellation in the northern hemisphere between Pegasus and Draco in the Milky Way; contains a black hole
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)
Meronyms (members of "Cygnus"):
Deneb (the brightest star in Cygnus)
Northern Cross (a cluster of 5 bright stars forming a cross in the constellation Cygnus)
