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ZODIACAL LIGHT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A luminous tract in the sky; a reflection of sunlight from cosmic dust in the plane of the ecliptic; visible just before sunrise and just after sunset
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("zodiacal light" is a kind of...):
reflection; reflexion (the phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface)