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Home Dictionary Name: magellanicMagellanic cloud
Either of two conspicuous celestial nebulaelig near the south celestial pole resembling thin white clouds each of which is a galaxy2 smaller than but separate from the Milky Way galaxy and together they are the galactic formations nearest to our galaxy They are not visible from the northern hemisphere and are named after Ferdinand Magellan who saw them in his expedition which passed through the Strait of Magellan in South America and one ship of which completed the first circumnavigation of the globe...
Magellanic
Of or pertaining to or named from Ferdinand Magellan 1480 1521 the navigator...
Coalsack
Any one of the spaces in the Milky Way which are very black owing to the nearly complete absence of stars esp the large space near the Southern Cross sometimes called the Black Magellanic Cloud...
Nandou
Any one of three species of South American ostriches of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia especially the smallest Pterocnemia pennata formerly Rhea Americana called also the common rhea They are tall fast running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three toed found from Peru to the Straits of Magellan See Rhea...
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