colure
Meanings
noun
- Either of two great circles (meridians) that intersect at the poles and either the equinoxes or solstices.
Word forms
Etymology
From Latin colurus, ultimately from Ancient Greek κόλουρος (kólouros, “truncated, dock-tailed”).
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