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Magellanic   Listen
adjective
Magellanic  adj.  Of or pertaining to, or named from, Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), the navigator.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Magellanic" Quotes from Famous Books



... Regulus—these are high up in their course; they look down with great splendor, smiling peacefully as they precede the Southern Cross on its western way. And yonder, farther still, away to the south, float the Magellanic clouds, and the "Coal Sacks"—those mysterious, dark spots in the sky, which seem as though it had been rent, and these were holes in the "azure robe of night," looking out into the starless, empty, ...
— The Literary World Seventh Reader • Various

... Here we have come to live. Here we have come to raise our children. Here, in this idyllic village, which the noble race that once inhabited this fair planet left behind them when they migrated to the Greater Magellanic Cloud, we have settled down to create a new and better Way of Life. Here, thanks to Francis Farnsworth Pfleuger, we shall know happiness prosperity and ...
— The Servant Problem • Robert F. Young



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