Associations to the word «Puppis»

Wiktionary

PUPPIS, proper noun. (constellation) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the stern of a ship. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.

Dictionary definition

PUPPIS, noun. A constellation in the southern hemisphere between Vela and Canis Major that shaped like the stern of a boat.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats