Paraselene

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A luminous spot on a lunar halo.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A bright, circular spot, sometimes seen on a lunar halo, caused by refraction through ice crystals
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the point of intersection of two lunar halos. Cf. parhelion.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A bright spot on a lunar halo, produced by refraction through a preponderating number of ice-crystals floating perpendicularly or vertically; a mock moon.
    • Word Usage
    "Of such are the records of auroral displays, parhelions, paraselene, lunar halos, fog bows, irridescent clouds, refracted images of mountains and mirage generally."
    Variant
    parhelion   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    moon dog   
     
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