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Southend-on-Sea
souther
southerly
southerly buster
southern
Southern Alps
Southern blot
Southern Cone
Southern Cross
Southern Crown
southern hemisphere
southern lights
Southern Paiute
Southern prickly ash
Southern Rhodesia
Southern Sotho
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Southern Cross

South·ern Cross


noun 
Definition:
 
constellation in southern hemisphere: a constellation of the southern hemisphere containing four bright stars forming a cross. The smallest of the 88 constellations, it contains the Coalsack, a dark cloud of dust obscuring the stars beyond it in the Milky Way.

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