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Answer for the clue "Zodiacal sign or Turkish mountain chain ", 6 letters:
taurus

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Taurus is the name of different characters in Marvel Comics .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
zodiac constellation, late Old English, from Latin taurus "bull, bullock, steer," also the name of the constellation, from PIE *tau-ro- "bull" (cognates: Greek tauros , Old Church Slavonic turu "bull, steer;" Lithuanian tauras "aurochs;" Old Prussian tauris ...

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It had been the great star-faring guilds, the Leading Star, the Adventurine, and later the Cor Tauri and Num Sessa, who had developed the modern harmonia with their multiple, multi-throated pipes, and the flexible tuning systems that let a ship go directly from the lifting sequence, the harmony that countered the music of the planetary core, to the music that would take them to the edge of the systemic envelope and finally beyond the twelfth of heaven.

Taurus, with the full Moon, then entered into the cone of shadow, and under him was the Celestial River, most properly called the Nile, and below, Perseus, the God of Chemmis, and Auriga, leading a she-goat, himself identical with Pan, whose wife Aiga the she-goat was styled.

This conjunction of the Sun with the Moon at the Vernal Equinox, in the constellation Taurus, required the Bull Apis to have on his shoulder a mark resembling the Crescent Moon.

Like all of Asia Minor, it was mountainous, but except for the massif of Mysian Olympus at Prusa, the Bithynian ranges were somewhat lower, rounder, less forbidding than the Taurus.

He expended every round in the Bullpup, let go, and pulled the Taurus and the Amazon.

Unsurprisingly, there were only two other cars in the parking lot besides the Taurus.

He walked half a mile to a Budget Rent-a-Car on La Cienega and got himself a fresh blue Taurus.

And no one was feeling the pressure more strongly than the cochairman of Taurus, Hank Bindle.

Leaving the Taurus cochairman where he lay, Assola al Khobar hurried into the office bathroom.

Then Taurus, directly opposite the Sun, entered into the cone of shadow which the earth projects, by which the Moon is eclipsed at full, and with which, making night, the Bull rises and descends as if covered with a veil, while he remains above our horizon.

He thinks he sees her go by without slowing at about five-forty, a green Taurus busting past in a rain which has now become heavy, a green Taurus that might or might not be pulling a light yellow nimbus behind it that fades at once in the graying air.

Taurus Raging Bull, a colossal double-action revolver with a molded underlug that made the eight-inch long barrel seem even huger than it was.

Agrippa, Statilius Taurus, Maecenas, Salvidienus, Lucius Cornificius, Titius, Cornelius Gallus, the Coccei, Sosius .

The movements of the Seven Stars that revolve around the pole were also represented, as were those of Capella, which by its heliacal rising at the moment when the Sun reached the Pleiades, in Taurus, announced the commencement of the annual revolution of the Sun.

Smeugor and Tauri put their men to work building fine palaces and good roads, so their people are better qualified as builders than they are as soldiers.