canicular

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ca=nic=u=lar

CIDE DICTIONARY

canicular, a. [L. canicularis; cf. F. caniculaire.].

 Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.  [1913 Webster]

Canicular days, the dog days, See Dog days. -- Canicular year, the Egyptian year, computed from one heliacal rising of the Dog Star to another.

THESAURUS

canicular

aestival, arctic, ardent, autumn, autumnal, baking, blistering, boiling, boreal, broiling, brumal, burning, burning hot, ebullient, equinoctial, feverish, flushed, grilling, heated, hibernal, hiemal, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, like a furnace, like an oven, midsummer, midwinter, out of season, overheated, overwarm, parching, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, seasonal, seething, simmering, sizzling hot, smoking hot, solstitial, spring, springlike, sudorific, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, toasting, torrid, vernal, white-hot, winter, winterlike, wintery, wintry

ROGET THESAURUS

canicular

Heat

N heat, caloric, temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity, incalescence, incandescence, glow, flush, fever, hectic, phlogiston, fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze, bonfire, firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny, wildfire, sheet of fire, lambent flame, devouring element, adiathermancy, recalescence, summer, dog days, canicular days, baking, heat, white heat, tropical heat, Afric heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat, sirocco, simoom, broiling sun, insolation, warming, sun, pyrology, thermology, thermotics, thermodynamics, thermometer, calorie, gram-calorie, small calorie, kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie, British Thermal Unit, B, T, U, therm, quad, degrees Kelvin, kelvins, degrees centigrade, degrees Celsius, degrees Fahrenheit, hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen, thermal, thermic, calorific, fervent, fervid, ardent, aglow, sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular, steamy, close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive, reeking, baking, red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning, hot, piping hot, like a furnace, like an oven, burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper, hot enough to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg, fiery, incandescent, incalescent, candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking, live, on fire, dazzling, in flames, blazing, in a blaze, alight, afire, ablaze, unquenched, unextinguished, smoldering, in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat, sudorific, sweltering, sweltered, blood hot, blood warm, warm as a toast, warm as wool, volcanic, plutonic, igneous, isothermal, isothermic, isotheral, not a breath of air, whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.