Au-rō'rā, n.
n.; pl. Eng. AU-RŌ'RĀS, Lat. (rarely used) AU-RŌ'RÆ. [Lat. aurora, from aurea hora, golden hour, or Gr. αὔριος ὥρα, morning hour, or from Skr. ushāsā, aurōra.]
Sense 1. The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.
Sense 2. (Myth.) The goddess of the morning, or daybreak deified. The poets represented her as rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.
Sense 3. (Bot.) A species of crowfoot. Johnson.