Sagitta

[suh-jit-uh]

Sa·git·ta

[suh-jit-uh]
noun, genitive Sa·git·tae [-jit-ee] . Astronomy.
the Arrow, a northern constellation between Aquila and Cygnus.

Origin:
1695–1705; < Latin: arrow
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Sagitta is always a great word to know.
So is meteoroid. Does it mean:
a number of heavenly bodies associated and acting together according to certain natural laws
any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space: when such a body enters the earth's atmosphere it is heated to luminosity and becomes a meteor
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Sagitta (səˈɡɪtə)
 
n , Latin genitive Sagittae
a small constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Cygnus and Aquila and crossed by the Milky Way
 
[C16: from Latin, literally: an arrow]

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