Lepus

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a rabbit. It lies south of the constellation Orion.

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big dipperconstellationgenus lepus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lepus (“rabbit, hare”).

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