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Megrez
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Me·grez  (mgrz)
n.
A star in the Big Dipper.

[Short for Arabic mariz a-anab ad-dubb al-'akbar, the root of the tail of the greater bear, from mariz, root, from araza, to prick, insert; see rz in Semitic roots.]


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