"blood moon" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-blood moon.ogg [Australia] Forms: blood moons [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} blood moon (plural blood moons)
  1. (figurative, astronomy) The moon as it appears during a total lunar eclipse. Tags: figuratively Categories (topical): Astronomy Translations (moon as it appears during a total lunar eclipse): লহু মাহতাব (lohu mahotab) (Bengali), 血月 (xuèyuè) (Chinese Mandarin), blodmåne [common-gender] (Danish), verikuu (Finnish), lune cuivrée [feminine] (French), lune de sang [feminine] (French), lune rouge [feminine] (French), Blutmond [masculine] (German), luna rossa [feminine] (Italian), luna di sangue [feminine] (Italian), czerwony księżyc [masculine] (Polish), lua sangrenta [feminine] (Portuguese), luna de sangre [feminine] (Spanish), blodmåne [common-gender] (Swedish), kanlı ay (Turkish), òṣùpádẹ̀jẹ̀ (Yoruba)

Inflected forms

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