colure

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Either of two great circles (meridians) that intersect at the poles and either the equinoxes or solstices.

Word forms

colure colures

Etymology

From Latin colurus, ultimately from Ancient Greek κόλουρος (kólouros, “truncated, dock-tailed”).

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