1) Air Pump constellation 2) Constellation 3) Constellation, Pump 4) Constellation, Air Pump
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==History== Antlia was created in 1756 by the French astronomer Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, who created fourteen constellations for the southern sky to fill some faint regions. Though Antlia was technically visible to ancient Greek astronomers, its stars were too faint to have been included in any constellations. Because of this, its main sta...
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• (n.) The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera.
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(abbr. Ant, gen. Antliae) The Air Pump; a small, obscure southern constellation. Originally called Antlia Pneumatica and thought to represent the pump invented by English physicist Robert Boyle, it lies slightly north of the constellation Vela. Its brightest star, Alpha Ant, is ...
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English name: The Air Pump. Genitive name: Antliae. Visibility: Parts visible from the UK. See TABLE 20: THE CONSTELLATIONS.
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Ant'li·a noun ;
plural Antilæ [ Latin , a pump, Gr, ... hold of a ship]
(Zoology) The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See
Lepidoptera .
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[
n] - a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Vela
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noun a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Vela
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the Air Pump, a small southern constellation between Vela and Hydra. · (l.c.)the proboscis of a lepidopterous insect.
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