Pictor definition

Pictor

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WordNet

noun

(1) A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Columba

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Etymology

Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From pīctor, an "easel"

Proper noun

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

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