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What does Delphinus mean?

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  1. (astronomy) A small summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dolphin. It lies between the constellations Cygnus and Aquila.
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Like Delphinus, this constellation is very small and contains no objects of particular interest.
To the right of Equuleus, towards the west-south-west is the constellation Delphinus.
The sailors confessed and were punished, and Arion's lyre and the dolphin became the constellations Lyra and Delphinus.
Both long-beaked Delphinus capensis and short-beaked D.delphis common dolphins were shown to occur off Senegal.
The common dolphin is the name given to two species of dolphin making up the genus Delphinus.
The Pegasus system is a perfect synthesis between the mighty bass of Delphinus and the detailed finesse of Lynx.

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