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sun dogs

sun dogs is the plural of sun dog.

Meaning of sun dog

Noun

sun dog (plural sun dogs)

  1. A bright spot in the sky, usually one of two on a parhelic circle on both sides of the sun (or occasionally above and below it), caused by the refraction of the sun's image through ice crystals.
    • December […] the 28th [1714], the Sun being an Hour high, appeared a Sun-Dog or Parhelion, the Sky full of flying Clouds.1749, Thomas Short, A General Chronological History of the Air, Weather, Seasons, Meteors, &c. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Longman, […]; and A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 474
    Synonyms:
    mock sun, parhelion

Forms of sun dogs

alternative formsundogs
alternative formsun-dogs

Questions about sun dogs

What is sun dogs the plural of?
Sun dogs is the plural of sun dog.

Words near sun dogs in the dictionary

  1. sun deities
  2. sun deity
  3. sun disc
  4. sun discs
  5. sun dog
  6. sun dogs
  7. sun fever
  8. sun fevers
  9. sun filter
  10. sun filters
  11. sun fruit

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