nubecula
/njuːˈbɛkjʊlə/noun
Astronomy. In form Nubecula. (The name of) either of the Magellanic Clouds.
Origin
Late 17th century (in an earlier sense). From classical Latin nūbēcula a small cloud, a cloud-like cluster of stars, a cloudy area in urine, a film in the eye from nūbēs cloud + -cula.
- rub-resistant
- rubric
- rubrical
- rubricality
- rubrically
- rubricate
- rubrication
- rubricator
- rubrician
- rubricism
- rubricist
- rubricize
- rubricked
- rubrification
- rubriform
- rubrify
- rubrish
- rubrisher
- rub salt into the (or someone's) wound
- rub shoulders (or elbows)
- rub shoulders with
- rub someone (or rub someone up) the wrong way
- rub someone out
- rub something down
- rub something out