small magellanic cloud

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   the smaller of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere

   BroaderMagellanic Cloud

Questions about small magellanic cloud

What does small magellanic cloud mean?

small magellanic cloud means "the smaller of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere".

Is small magellanic cloud a common word?

small magellanic cloud 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.