beta centauri

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   the second brightest star in Centaurus

   Broaderstar

   Part ofCentaurus

Questions about beta centauri

What does beta centauri mean?

beta centauri means "the second brightest star in Centaurus".

Is beta centauri a common word?

beta centauri is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.