Usually means: Brightest star in Carina constellation.
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  1. Canopus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Canopus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Canopus, Canopus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Canopus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Canopus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Canopus, canopus: Wordnik
  7. Canopus: Wiktionary
  8. Canopus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Canopus: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Canopus, canopus: Dictionary.com
  11. Canopus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Canopus (Egypt), Canopus (Thrace), Canopus (disambiguation), Canopus (mythology), Canopus (nuclear test), Canopus (star), Canopus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Canopus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. canopus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Canopus: Rhymezone
  16. Canopus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. canopus: FreeDictionary.org
  18. canopus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. canopus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Canopus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Canopus: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. Canopus: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Canopus (astronomy), Canopus (star), Canopus: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CANOPUS: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Canopus: Extragalactic Astronomy

Definitions from Wiktionary (Canopus)

noun:  (astronomy) A white bright giant, visually the second brightest star in the night sky, a part of the southern constellation of Carina.
noun:  (Greek mythology) The pilot of King Menelaus's ship in the Iliad.
noun:  An ancient coastal city in northern Egypt, known for extravagance.
noun:  A canopic jar.

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