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‖ Præsepe Astron.|priːˈsiːpiː|
[L. præsæpe enclosure, stall, manger, hive, f. præ, pre- + sæpīre to fence.]
The name of a loose cluster of stars, appearing to the naked eye as a nebula, in the constellation Cancer.
1658Phillips, Præsepe, a constellation in 2 degrees 13 minutes of Leo. 1868Lockyer Elem. Astron. i. §71. 29 The Hyades, in the constellation Taurus, and the Præsepe or ‘Beehive’, in Cancer. |