Usually means: Large constellation; contains Big Dipper.
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  1. ursa major: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Ursa Major, Ursa Major: Merriam-Webster
  3. Ursa Major: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Ursa Major: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Ursa Major: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Ursa Major: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ursa Major: Wordnik
  8. Ursa Major: Wiktionary
  9. Ursa Major: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Ursa Major: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Ursa Major: Dictionary.com
  12. Ursa Major (album), Ursa Major (comics), Ursa Major (constellation), Ursa Major (disambiguation), Ursa Major (excavator), Ursa Major (sculpture), Ursa Major, Ursa major: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Ursa major: Rhymezone
  14. Ursa Major: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. ursa major: FreeDictionary.org
  16. ursa major: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Ursa Major: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Ursa Major (constellation), Ursa Major: Encyclopedia

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  1. URSA MAJOR: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

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  1. Ursa Major: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Ursa Major)

noun:  (astronomy) A large circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a bear. It includes the familiar asterism the Big Dipper and the stars Mizar, Dubhe, and Alkaid.

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