Associations to the word «Sextans»

Wiktionary

SEXTANS, proper noun. (constellation) A dim spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a sextant. It lies south of the constellation of Leo.
SEXTANS, noun. (historical) (Roman antiquity) A Roman coin worth one sixth of an as.

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