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Definition of Lacertids
1. lacertid [n] - See also: lacertid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacertids
Literary usage of Lacertids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1887)
"... lacertids, and Cepheids, exhibits a great deficiency as compared with it.
The excess, so decided in character, between i° and 60° is distinctly to be ..."
2. Star-names and Their Meanings by Richard Hinckley Allen (1899)
"... radiant point of the lacertids, a minor meteor stream visible through August
and September. Before the Lizard was formed, Royer introduced here, ..."
3. The Observatory by Royal Astronomical Society (Gran Bretaña), Royal Greenwich Observatory, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, Royal astronomical society GB (1879)
"The latter is the lacertids; G. & H. give the radiant slightly NE of Heis.
It is a very rich shower with long duration, and apparently endures through July ..."
4. The Geographical and Geological Distribution of Animals by Angelo Heilprin (1886)
"... commoner European forms (Lacerta) belong, although the genus Xantusia, from
the Pacific coast, is by some authors doubtfully referred to the lacertids? ..."
5. The Observatory (1888)
"... has referred them to the following radiants :— Aquarids. Position diffuse.
1 Perhaps one shower of J lacertids. ..."
6. Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Developer's Workshopby John Clark Craig, Jeff Webb by John Clark Craig, Jeff Webb (1998)
"Figure 21-2 shows the completed text editor in action. Meteor Showers in August...
lacertids Average speeds, short Kappa ..."
7. A Handbook of Descriptive Astronomy by George Frederick Chambers (1877)
"lacertids. 1 Two showers, difficult to separate \A notable shower, precise duration
uncertain (Greg). / and also contiguous to No. ..."
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