proper noun
Magellanic Clouds: A grouping of galaxies, a galaxy subgroup, a satellite grouping to the Milky Way Subgroup, in the Local Group of Galaxies.
Related: magellanique, nuage de Magellan
nuage + de + Magellan. Named after Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. From the cloud-like appearance of the Magellanic Clouds (“Nuages de Magellan”), discovered on the circumnavigation of the world voyage of discovery headed up by Magellan during the Age of Exploration.