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Ophiuchus is a large constellation located around the celestial equator . Its name is from the Greek " serpent -bearer", and it is commonly represented as a man grasping the snake that is represented by the constellation Serpens . Ophiuchus was one of the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
constellation (representing Aesculapius), 1650s, from Latin, from Greek ophioukhos , literally "holding a serpent," from ophis "serpent" (see ophio- ) + stem of ekhein "to hold, have, keep" (see scheme (n.)). The constellation is equatorial, and Milton's ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ophiuchus \O`phi*u"chus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, lit., holding a serpent; 'o`fis a serpent + ? to hold.] (Astron.) A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere, delineated as a man holding a serpent in his hands; -- called also Serpentarius .
Usage examples of ophiuchus.
It shone with the strange dim green of ionized nebular gases, and the dark spreading wings of it blotted out the stars of Ophiuchus, and slowly grew to hide the Serpent and even the Scorpion.
You see, you set up a disinhibiting stimulus that would remind you before-well, when the right time came.
In the Ophiuchus sector planets were few, even if one counted Van Biesbroeck's brown dwarf, a gas giant circling VB-8, twenty-one light-years out from Old Earth and almost thirteen light-years behind.
As for the degree of civilization in Ophiuchus, that remained to be seen.
In Ophiuchus is a large dark dust cloud about seven hundred light-years away, concealing a cluster of young stars.
Ahead, the stars of Ophiuchus slowly spread, but still not even the highest powers of the tele-periscopes could show the faint point of Barnard’s Star—so dim in stellar death that it was only the tenth magnitude, as seen from Earth.
Racing northward out of the constellation Ophiuchus, in mad flight from the Serpent and the Scorpion.
His ship, the Ophiuchus, was not to be expected for at least a month, therefore he had a month to spend as, lavishly as he might wish.
A little red dot, just off the shoulder of Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer.