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ZODIACAL LIGHT

• ZODIACAL LIGHT (noun)
The noun ZODIACAL LIGHT has 1 sense:

1. a luminous tract in the sky; a reflection of sunlight from cosmic dust in the plane of the ecliptic; visible just before sunrise and just after sunset

Familiarity information: ZODIACAL LIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

• ZODIACAL LIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A luminous tract in the sky; a reflection of sunlight from cosmic dust in the plane of the ecliptic; visible just before sunrise and just after sunset

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("zodiacal light" is a kind of...):

reflection; reflexion (the phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface)

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