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heliacal
heliacal is a 8-letter English word with 2 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it; rising or setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 2 senses
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- 1adjective
Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it; rising or setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun.
- 2adjective
pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun
"the heliacal rising of the Dog Star"
"the heliacal or Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of Sothis (the Egyptian name for the Dog Star)"
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