Camelopardalis

Latin camelopardalis (“giraffe”), from Ancient Greek

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1. (obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Giraffidae – corresponding to Giraffa.

• Camelopardalidae
• Camelopardidae

• Giraffa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Giraffa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Giraffa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Camelopardalis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

First recorded by the astronomer Jakob Bartsch in 1624, but probably created earlier by Petrus Plancius. From Latin camēlopardalis (“a camelopard, giraffe”).

Camelopardalis

1. (astronomy) A faint circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a giraffe.

Camelopardalis ?

1. (astronomy) Camelopardalis (constellation)