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Brightest star in Gemini
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pollux
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pollucite \Pol"lu*cite\, n. [See Pollux , and 4th Castor .] (Min.) A colorless transparent mineral, resembling quartz, occurring with castor or castorite on the island of Elba. It is a silicate of alumina and c[ae]sia. Called also pollux .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context mineral English) A variety of petalite always found with castor.
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Pollux may refer to:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
twin brother of Castor, name of the beta star of Gemini, 1520s, from Latin, from Greek Polydeukes , literally "very sweet," from polys "much" (see poly- ) + deukes "sweet" (see glucose ). The contraction of the name in Latin is perhaps via Etruscan [Klein]. ...
Usage examples of pollux.
It was he who named them Pollux and Castor, after the Gemini Twins of mythology.
Cato and Thermus ascended the steps on the side where Pollux sat his painted marble horse, picked their way between the praetors with a grin for Bibulus, and attained the bench.
On the far side of the open space cluttered by two or three tribunals stood the two dowdy basilicae Opimia and Sempronia, with the glorious temple of Castor and Pollux to their left.
He slid out of the box, and Bullard turned his attention once more to the field, only now his thoughts were inside the Pollux, parked in her launching rack over at the sky yard.
Castor Pollux en nef, astre crinite: L'erain public par terre & mer vuidé, Pise, Ast, Ferrare, Turin terre interdicte.
Besides, Castor or Pollux would have intercepted any stranger crossing over into our camping area.
He helped himself at random - one name meant no more to him than mother - and went on to make an epoch-making discovery, that Wensleydale cheese and vintage port were a pair of heavenly twins, Castor and Pollux riding triumphantly as the climax of a glorious procession.
He helped himself at random one name meant no more to him than mother and went on to make an epochmaking discovery, that Wensleydale cheese and vintage port were a pair of heavenly twins, Castor and Pollux riding triumphantly as the climax of a glorious procession.
The first bonfire up on the hill had gone out Orion's belt, Sinus, Castor and Pollux -- The stars were moving across the sky on their pre-ordained curves.
The apparitions of Castor and Pollux, particularly to announce the Macedonian victory, are attested by historians and public monuments.
If he couldn't let Castor and Pollux see him, he couldn't allow himself a glimpse of them.
Afterwards Castor and Pollux carried off the two daughters of Leudippus and married them.
Only two more foster children would remain, Castor and Pollux, now guarding.
But the old gaskets appeared to be in perfect condition, as Pollux pointed when they opened the sequence.
Up the Goulet lay the reefs of the Little Girls, with their outlier, Pollux Reef, and beyond the Little Girls, in the outer roadstead, lay the French navy at anchor, forced to tolerate this constant invigilation because of the superior might of the Channel Fleet waiting outside, just over the horizon.