Definition of camelopardalis in English English dictionary
A faint circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a giraffe
camelopardalis
Hyphenation
Ca·me·lo·par·da·lis
Pronunciation
Etymology
() First recorded by the astronomer Jakob Bartsch in 1624, but probably created earlier by Petrus Plancius. From Latin camēlopardalis (“a camelopard, giraffe”).