English Explanatory Dictionary

Camelopardalis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A faint circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a giraffe.

Word forms

Camelopardalis

Etymology

First recorded by the astronomer Jakob Bartsch in 1624, but probably created earlier by Petrus Plancius. From Latin camēlopardalis (“a camelopard, giraffe”).

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