Camelopardalis

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

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camelopardalis constellationgiraffegiraffe constellationhistoric genuslongnecked mammalold genus name

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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