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CYGNUS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of Anatidae

Synonyms:

Cygnus; genus Cygnus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)

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