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Ar·go    Audio Help   [ahr-goh] Pronunciation Key
–noun, genitive Ar·gus    Audio Help   [ahr-guhs] Pronunciation Key for 1.
1.Astronomy. a very large southern constellation, now divided into Vela, Carina, Puppis, and Pyxis, four separate constellations lying largely south of Canis Major.
2.(italics) Classical Mythology. the ship in which Jason sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece.
—Related forms
Ar·go·an, adjective
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Ar·gus    Audio Help   [ahr-guhs] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.Classical Mythology. a giant with 100 eyes, set to guard the heifer Io: his eyes were transferred after his death to the peacock's tail.
2.a son of Phrixus and builder of the Argo.
3.(in the Odyssey) Odysseus' faithful dog, who recognized his master after twenty years and immediately died.
4.any observant or vigilant person; a watchful guardian.
5.(lowercase) Also, argus pheasant. any of several brilliantly marked Malayan pheasants of the Argusianus or Rheinardia genera.
[Origin: < L < Gk Árgos, deriv. of argós bright, shining]
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Argus or Argos, in Greek mythology. 1 Many-eyed monster, also called Panoptes. He guarded Io after she had been changed into a heifer. After Hermes slew the monster, Hera took his eyes and placed them in the tail of her bird, the peacock. 2 Builder of the Argo. He built the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts (of which he was one) sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece. 
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