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Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.

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  1. a. Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.
  2. adj. of or relating to the dog days of summer
  3. adj. relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star)
  4. Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star. Canicular days, the dog days, See Dog days. -- Canicular year, the Egyptian year, computed from one heliacal rising of the Dog Star to another.
  5. Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.Canicular days, the dog days, See Dog days.-- Canicular year, the Egyptian year, computed from one heliacalrising of the Dog Star to another.
  6. a of or relating to the dog days of summer a relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star)