capricorn
general
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(Astron.) The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic. The sun was entered into Capricorn. Dryden.
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(Astron.) A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish. Capricorn beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle of the family Carambucidæ; one of the long-horned beetles. The larvæ usually bore into the wood or bark of trees and shurbs and are often destructive. See Girdler, Pruner.
noun
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the tenth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about December 22 to January 19
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a faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere; between Sagittarius and Aquarius
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(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Capricorn
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