Telescopium

Telescopium

See also: telescopium

Translingual

Telescopium telescopium

Proper noun

Telescopium n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Potamididae – telescope snails.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Mollusca – phylum; Gastropoda - class ; Caenogastropoda - subclass; Cerithioidea - superfamily; Potamididae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Telescopium telescopium - sole accepted extant species

References

• Telescopium (gastropod) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Potamididae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Telescopium telescopium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Telescopium at World Register of Marine Species

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English

Etymology

The constellation was named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763, from New Latin telescopium (“a telescope”)

Proper noun

Telescopium

1. (astronomy) A small faint constellation of the southern winter sky, said to resemble a telescope. It lies south of the constellation of Corona Australis.

Derived terms

• Telescopii

Translations

small faint constellation of the southern winter sky

Arabic: الْمِقْرَاب‎ (al-miqrāb) Chinese: Mandarin: 望遠鏡座 (zh), 望远镜座 (zh) (Wàngyuǎnjìngzuò) Finnish: Kaukoputki (fi) French: Télescope (fr) m German: Teleskop (de) n Greek: Τηλεσκόπιον (el) n (Tileskópion) Irish: an Teileascóp m Japanese: 望遠鏡座 (ja) (ぼうえんきょうざ), ぼうえんきょう座 (ja) Kazakh: Телескоп (Teleskop) Malay: Teleskop Polish: Luneta (pl) f Russian: Телескоп (Teleskop) Spanish: Telescopium