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Parhelion   Listen
noun
Parhelion  n.  (pl. parhelia)  A mock sun appearing in the form of a bright light, sometimes near the sun, and tinged with colors like the rainbow, and sometimes opposite to the sun. The latter is usually called an anthelion. Often several mock suns appear at the same time. Cf. Paraselene.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Parhelion" Quotes from Famous Books



... direct course to the hut was made. There was no mark by which to steer, except a "water-sky" to the north, the hinterland being clouded over. During the afternoon, the sun occasionally gleamed through a tract of cirro-stratus cloud and there was a very fine parhelion: signs of an approaching blizzard. At 4.30 P.M. we had done seventeen and a half miles, and, as all hands were fresh and willing, I decided to have a meal and go on again, considering that the moon was full and there were only six ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson



Words linked to "Parhelion" :   dapple, maculation, sundog, parhelic, mock sun



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