a S constellation between Orion and Canis Minor
Origin of Monoceros
L, the unicorn from Classical Greek monokeras from mono-, mono- + keras, hornMonoceros
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Monoceros
noun
A constellation near Canis Major and Canis Minor.
Origin of Monoceros
Middle English unicorn from Old French from Latin monocerōs from Greek monokerōs having one horn mono- mono- keras horn ; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Origin
From Old French monoceros, from Latin monoceros.
Proper noun
- (astronomy) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a unicorn. It lies amid the Milky Way, just east of the constellation Orion.
Origin
First recorded by the astronomer Jakob Bartsch in 1624, but possibly created earlier by Petrus Plancius. From Latin monoceros, a "unicorn"
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