cygnus cygnus

1. 1.

   common Old World swan noted for its whooping call

   Synonymswhooperwhooper swan

   Broaderswan

   Part ofCygnus

Questions about cygnus cygnus

What does cygnus cygnus mean?

cygnus cygnus means "common Old World swan noted for its whooping call".

What is another word for cygnus cygnus?

Close synonyms include whooper, whooper swan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cygnus cygnus a common word?

cygnus cygnus 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.