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Bishop's ring

noun

, Meteorology.
  1. a reddish-brown corona occasionally seen around the sun, caused by volcanic dust in the atmosphere.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Bishop's ring1

After Sereno E. Bishop (1827–1909), U.S. missionary in Hawaii, who described such rings, resulting from the explosion of Krakatoa, in 1883

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