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Dorado

Dorado \Do*ra"do\, n. [Sp. dorado gilt, fr. dorar to gild, fr. L. deaurare. See 1st Dory, and cf. Fl Dorado.]

  1. (Astron.) A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) A large, oceanic fish of the genus Coryph[ae]na.

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dorado

n. ''Coryphaena hippurus'', the mahi-mahi or dolphin, a species of fish with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration.

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Dorado -- U.S. Municipio in Puerto Rico
Population (2000): 34017
Housing Units (2000): 13067
Land area (2000): 23.328554 sq. miles (60.420674 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 30.497867 sq. miles (78.989110 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 53.826421 sq. miles (139.409784 sq. km)
Located within: Puerto Rico (PR), FIPS 72
Location: 18.442798 N, 66.276894 W
Headwords:
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Dorado, PR
Dorado Municipio
Dorado Municipio, PR
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Dorado

Dorado is a constellation in the southern sky. It was named in the late 16th century and is now one of the 88 modern constellations. Its name refers to the dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus), which is known as dorado in Portuguese, although it has also been depicted as a swordfish. Dorado is notable for containing most of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the remainder being in the constellation Mensa. The South ecliptic pole also lies within this constellation.

Even though the name Dorado is not Latin but Portuguese, astronomers give it the Latin genitive form Doradus when naming its stars; it is treated (like the adjacent asterism Argo Navis) as a feminine proper name of Greek origin ending in -ō (like Io or Callisto or Argo), which have a genitive ending -ūs.

Dorado (disambiguation)

Dorado is a southern constellation.

Dorado may also refer to:

  • Javier Dorado, a Spanish footballer
  • Dorado, Puerto Rico, a municipality in Puerto Rico
  • Dorado Airport, an airport in Dorado, Puerto Rico
  • Dorado Wings, a Puerto Rican airline that operated between 1964 and 1982
  • Dorado (grape), another name for the Portuguese wine grape Loureira
  • Dorados de Sinaloa, a Mexican professional football club
  • Dorado, a British electronic label based in London
  • El Dorado, a mythical city of gold
  • Xerox 1132, a Lisp machine
  • Unisys ClearPath Dorado computers

Dorado may also refer to several unrelated species of fish:

  • Both species of the oceanic Coryphaena genus, also known as dolphinfishes
    • Mahi-mahi
    • Pompano dolphinfish
  • Zungaro zungaro, a catfish from the Amazon region
  • The river-dwelling Salminus, or dorado of South America
    • Salminus brasiliensis, a popular sport fish
  • Sparus aurata, known as dorada in Spanish-speaking countries
Dorado (Chinese astronomy)

The modern constellation Dorado is not included in the Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions system of traditional Chinese uranography because its stars are too far south for observers in China to know about them prior to the introduction of Western star charts. Based on the work of Xu Guangqi and the German Jesuit missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell in the late Ming Dynasty, this constellation has been classified under the 23 Southern Asterisms (近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu) with the names White Patches Attached (夾白, Jiābái) and Goldfish (金魚, Jīnyú).

The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 劍魚座 (jiàn yú zuò), meaning "the swordfish constellation".

Usage examples of "dorado".

Now the Distliards have taken to calling the city itself El Dorado, the place of gold.

According to the bats, His Majesty is strongly opposed to the prospect of King Diego getting his greasy hands on the fabled gold of El Dorado, which would make him the richest monarch in Eurania and upset the balance of power.

El Dorado forces using metal weapons, so some of the smuggling is getting through.

If the Distliards can take El Dorado, then the trade through Mondon will be enormous!

They feared that El Dorado might yet reconquer its rebellious colonies and hurl the Distlish into the sea.

El Dorado itself, the floating city, while the other two were from lesser towns within its empire, and therefore had lower status.

El Dorado, and stay put in Sigisa, drinking rum and dancing till dawn.

Blankets seemed absurd in that tropical sweat house, but El Dorado lay beyond high ranges.

But while you guard me, my heart beats for El Dorado and I will do all I can against the Hairy Ones.

El Dorado, right where he had started, with the old scoundrel Basket-fox himself and an Eagle.

Even if Blood-mirror-walks and the others do reach El Dorado safely, do you think the Emperor will send a jaguar knight here to bargain with you?

They had been a month in Sigisa, but that was not long enough for their messengers to have reached El Dorado, let alone bring back a reply.

If the Distliards overthrew El Dorado without significant Yazotlan help,Yazotlan would not share in the booty.

If you told one of those rats in that corner to run to El Dorado, would it know where to go?

El Dorado in its righteous struggle against the invaders, and would sell it all the war materiel it needed.