canicular : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: canicular	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for canicular
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
canicular adj of or relating to the dog days of summer; "the canicular heat of the Deep South" relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star); "canicular days"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Canicular \Canic"ular\, a. [L. canicularis; cf. F. caniculaire.] Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star. {Canicular days}, the dog days, See {Dog days}. {Canicular year}, the Egyptian year, computed from one heliacal rising of the Dog Star to another.