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CANICULAR DAYS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does canicular days mean?
• CANICULAR DAYS (noun)
The noun CANICULAR DAYS has 1 sense:
1. the hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity
Familiarity information: CANICULAR DAYS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
canicular days; canicule; dog days
Hypernyms ("canicular days" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Holonyms ("canicular days" is a part of...):
summer; summertime (the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox)
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