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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near the constellations Norma and Telescopium.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An abbreviation of Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.
  • noun One of the 15 ancient southern constellations; the Altar.
  • noun A genus of American birds, of the family Psittacidœ, the macaws, of large size and gorgeous coloration, with very long cuneate tail and more or less naked face; sometimes made the type of a subfamily Arinœ, containing the wedgetailed American parrots.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Astron.) The Altar; a southern constellation, south of the tail of the Scorpion.
  • noun (Zoöl.) A name of the great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna), native of South America.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Psittacidae — certain macaws.
  • proper noun astronomy A constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an altar.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma
  • noun macaws

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin āra, altar, the constellation Ara; see as- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin āra ("altar").

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