Usually means: Sun dog; bright, false suns.
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  1. parhelion: Merriam-Webster
  2. parhelion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. parhelion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. parhelion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. parhelion: Vocabulary.com
  6. parhelion: Wordnik
  7. parhelion: Wiktionary
  8. parhelion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. parhelion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. parhelion: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. parhelion: Dictionary.com
  12. parhelion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Parhelion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Parhelion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. parhelion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. parhelion: Rhymezone
  17. Parhelion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. parhelion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. parhelion: FreeDictionary.org
  20. parhelion: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. parhelion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. parhelion: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. parhelion: Encyclopedia

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  1. parhelion: Medical dictionary

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  1. parhelion: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Parhelion: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy

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  1. parhelion: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See parhelia as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (parhelion)

noun:  Synonym of sun dog (“a bright spot in the sky, usually one of two on the parhelic circle on both sides of the sun (or occasionally above and below it), caused by the refraction of the sun's image through ice crystals”)
noun:  An image or reflection.

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