Pictor

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an easel. It lies between the constellations Carina and Dorado.

Etymology

Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin pīctor (“easel”).

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