subconstellation

noun

A subordinate or smaller constellation.

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Meanings

nounsubconstellation (plural subconstellations)

plural subconstellations

  1. astronomyA subordinate or smaller constellation.

    the Pleiades, or subconstellation upon the back of Taurus

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
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    the three stars of the belt and three in the sword, but an additional subconstellation, imagined as the various army generals for a warrior chief.

    2013, Lawrence Winkler, The Final Cartwheel, page 118

Origin

From sub- + constellation.

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Chicago

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