CYGNUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cygnus mean? 

• CYGNUS (noun)
  The noun CYGNUS has 2 senses:

1. a constellation in the northern hemisphere between Pegasus and Draco in the Milky Way; contains a black hole

2. a genus of Anatidae

  Familiarity information: CYGNUS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYGNUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A constellation in the northern hemisphere between Pegasus and Draco in the Milky Way; contains a black hole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

Meronyms (members of "Cygnus"):

Deneb (the brightest star in Cygnus)

Northern Cross (a cluster of 5 bright stars forming a cross in the constellation Cygnus)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A genus of Anatidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cygnus; genus Cygnus

Hypernyms ("Cygnus" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "Cygnus"):

Cygnus olor; mute swan (soundless Eurasian swan; commonly domesticated)

Cygnus cygnus; whooper; whooper swan (common Old World swan noted for its whooping call)

Cygnus columbianus; tundra swan (swan that nests in tundra regions of the New and Old Worlds)

Cygnus buccinator; trumpeter; trumpeter swan (large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry)

black swan; Cygnus atratus (large Australian swan having black plumage and a red bill)

Holonyms ("Cygnus" is a member of...):

Anatidae; family Anatidae (swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip: swans; geese; ducks)

 Context examples 

If the new red nova does materialize, it will be visible in Cygnus in the prominent formation called the Northern Cross.

(Star Explosion Could Change Night Sky, VOA News)

The Kepler-452 system is located 1,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus.

(Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth, NASA)

They also did not confront the mystery of the major 20-percent dips in brightness that Kepler observed while studying the Cygnus field of its primary mission.

(Mysterious Dimming of Tabby's Star May Be Caused by Dust, NASA)

This moon candidate, which is 8,000 light-years from Earth in the Cygnus constellation, orbits a gas-giant planet that, in turn, orbits a star called Kepler-1625.

(Astronomers Find First Evidence of Possible Moon Outside Our Solar System, NASA)

Kepler-186f resides in the Kepler-186 system, about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.

(Kepler Telescope Discovers First Earth-Size Planet in 'Habitable Zone', NASA)

Astronomers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and San Diego State University (SDSU) in California, used NASA's Kepler Space Telescope to identify the new planet, Kepler-1647b, the largest planet yet discovered around a double-star system, in the constellation Cygnus.

(New Planet Is Largest Discovered That Orbits Two Suns, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The binary star is about 1,800 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation, so what astronomers are observing now happened about 1,800 years ago.

(Star Explosion Could Change Night Sky, VOA News)

They say it may be possible to see a binary star in the Cygnus constellation merge and explode in 2022, creating a red nova.

(Star Explosion Could Change Night Sky, VOA News)