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Southern Cross

noun

Definition of SOUTHERN CROSS

:  four bright stars in the southern hemisphere that are situated as if at the extremities of a Latin cross; also :  the constellation of which these four stars are the brightest
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First Known Use of SOUTHERN CROSS

1681

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