Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
pertaining to or near the sun;
especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun;
- Example: "the heliacal rising of the Dog Star"- Example: "the heliacal or Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of Sothis (the Egyptian name for the Dog Star)"[syn: heliacal, heliac]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Heliac \He"li*ac\, a.
Heliacal.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
heliac
adj 1: pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first
rising of a star after and last setting before its
invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun; "the
heliacal rising of the Dog Star"; "the heliacal or Sothic
year is determined by the heliacal rising of Sothis (the
Egyptian name for the Dog Star)" [syn: heliacal,
heliac]