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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]