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A constellation in the southern hemisphere near the south celestial pole
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hydrus
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Hydrus is a small constellation in the deep southern sky. It was first depicted on a celestial atlas by Johann Bayer in his 1603 Uranometria . The French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille charted the brighter stars and gave their Bayer designations ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hydrus \Hy"drus\, n. [L., a water serpent; also, a certain constellation, Gr. "y`dros.] (Astron.) A constellation of the southern hemisphere, near the south pole.
Usage examples of hydrus.
On Beta Hydri III, it was endothermic octopeds like me taking centrality from the pentapeds.
Without dinosaurs dominating the ecosystem, mammals—or the endothermic octopeds on Beta Hydri III, and the live-birthers like T’kna on Delta Pavonis II—would never have been forced into the crepuscular existence that fostered the development of bigger brains.
On light gravity worlds like Beta Hydri IV, they evolved into the huge man-carrying flying mare beneath him.
And beta, of course, was the second letter of the Greek alphabet, meaning that Beta Hydri would be the second-brightest star in that constellation as seen from Earth.