'Black Magellanic Cloud' definitions:
Definition of 'Black Magellanic Cloud'
From: GCIDE
- Coalsack \Coal"sack`\, n. [Coal + 2d sack.] (Astron.) Any one of the spaces in the Milky Way which are very black, owing to the nearly complete absence of stars; esp., the large space near the Southern Cross sometimes called the Black Magellanic Cloud. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]