canicular

canicular
    adj 1: of or relating to the dog days of summer; "the canicular
           heat of the Deep South"
    2: relating to or especially immediately preceding or following
       the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star); "canicular
       days"
    

Canicular \Ca*nic"u*lar\, a. [L. canicularis; cf. F.
   caniculaire.]
   Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.
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   {Canicular days}, the dog days, See {Dog days}.

   {Canicular year}, the Egyptian year, computed from one
      heliacal rising of the Dog Star to another.
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63 Moby Thesaurus words for "canicular":
      aestival, arctic, ardent, autumn, autumnal, baking, blistering,
      boiling, boreal, broiling, brumal, burning, burning hot, ebullient,
      equinoctial, feverish, flushed, grilling, heated, hibernal, hiemal,
      hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, like a furnace, like an oven,
      midsummer, midwinter, out of season, overheated, overwarm,
      parching, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching,
      searing, seasonal, seething, simmering, sizzling hot, smoking hot,
      solstitial, spring, springlike, sudorific, summer, summerlike,
      summerly, summery, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, toasting,
      torrid, vernal, white-hot, winter, winterlike, wintery, wintry