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Monoceros

[muh-nos-er-uh s]
noun, genitive Mo·noc·er·o·tis [muh-nos-uh-roh-tis] /məˌnɒs əˈroʊ tɪs/. Astronomy.
  1. the Unicorn, a constellation south of Gemini and east of Orion.
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Historical Examples

  • The remaining stars of Monoceros will be found on map No. 3.

    Pleasures of the telescope

    Garrett Serviss

  • The species described by Leuckart, from Monodon monoceros, is only half an inch long.

    Parasites

    T. Spencer Cobbold

  • In its present form it was not known to the ancients, not even to Pliny, whose idea of the Monoceros or Unicorn is peculiar.

  • The stars forming the western end of Monoceros are depicted on map No. 1.

  • Turning now to the constellation Monoceros, we shall find a few objects worthy of attention.

    Astronomy with an Opera-glass

    Garrett Putman Serviss

British Dictionary definitions for monoceros

Monoceros

noun Latin genitive Monocerotis (məˌnɒsəˈrəʊtɪs)
  1. a faint constellation on the celestial equator crossed by the Milky Way and lying close to Orion and Canis Major
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Word Origin

C14: via Old French from Latin: unicorn, from Greek monokeros with a single horn, from mono- + keras horn
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Word Origin and History for monoceros

n.

c.1300, "the unicorn," from Old French monoceros "unicorn," from Latin monoceros, from Greek monokeros, from mono- "single" (see mono-) + keras "horn" (see kerato-).

This is a modern constellation, generally supposed to have been first charted by Bartschius as Unicornu; but Olbers and Ideler say that it was of much earlier formation, the latter quoting allusions to it, in the work of 1564, as "the other Horse south of the Twins and the Crab"; and Scaliger found it on a Persian sphere. [Richard Hinckley Allen, "Star Names and Their Meanings," London: 1899]
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