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Tucana

Tucana

See also: tucana

English

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Tucana

  1. (astronomy) A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a toucan. It lies south of the constellations Phoenix and Grus.

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Etymology

Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From later Latin tucana, a "toucan".

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