Subconstellation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A subordinate constellation.

    "the Pleiades, or subconstellation upon the back of Taurus"

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"the Pleiades, or subconstellation upon the back of Taurus"

Etymology

From sub- + constellation.

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