'Canicular' definitions:
Definition of 'canicular'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of or relating to the dog days of summer; "the canicular heat of the Deep South"
adjective
Relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star); "canicular days"
Definition of 'Canicular'
From: GCIDE
- Canicular \Ca*nic"u*lar\, 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'canicular'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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