Ursa+Minor

  • 11Ursa Minor — Ursa Mi|nor a group of stars in the northern sky, close to Ursa Major, which can easily be seen from Earth, and which includes the ↑Pole Star. It is also called the Little Bear or (in the US) the Little Dipper …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 12Ursa Minor Dwarf — Infobox Galaxy caption = Ursa Minor Dwarf on DSS2, 0.6° view name = Ursa Minor Dwarf epoch = J2000 type = Ecite web title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database work=Results for Ursa Minor Dwarf url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/ accessdate=2006 11 29 …

    Wikipedia

  • 13Ursa Minor — Kleiner Wagen; Kleiner Bär * * * Ụrsa Minor   [lateinisch], das Sternbild Kleiner Bär …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 14Ursa Minor — noun Etymology: Latin (genitive Ursae Minoris), literally, lesser bear Date: 1638 a constellation that includes the north pole of the heavens and the stars which form the Little Dipper with the North Star at the tip of the handle called also… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 15Ursa Minor — /err seuh muy neuhr/, gen. Ursae Minoris /err see mi nawr is, nohr /. Astron. the Little or Lesser Bear, the northernmost constellation, containing the stars that form the Little Dipper, the outermost of which, at the end of the handle, is… …

    Universalium

  • 16Ursa Minor — noun A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a bear. It includes the familiar asterism the Little Dipper and, as part of it, the northern pole star Polaris. See Also: UMi …

    Wiktionary

  • 17URSA MINOR —    the Lesser Bear, an inconspicuous constellation, the pole star forming the tip of the tail …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 18Ursa Minor — constellation of stars in the northern sky …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 19ursa minor — [L.] (Astron.) The Little Bear, the Lesser Bear …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 20Ursa Minor — Ur•sa Mi•nor [[t]ˈɜr sə ˈmaɪ nər[/t]] n. gen. Ur•sae Mi•nor•is [[t]ˈɜr si mɪˈnɔr ɪs, ˈnoʊr [/t]] astron. the Little or Lesser Bear, the northernmost constellation, containing the stars that form the Little Dipper, the outermost of which, at the… …

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