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Crater

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | © The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English 2009, originally published by Oxford University Press 2009. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Cra·ter / ˈkrātər/ Astron. a small and faint southern constellation (the Cup), between Hydra and Leo, said to represent the goblet of Apollo. ∎  [as genitive] (Cra·te·ris / krāˈti(ə)ris/ ) used with a preceding letter or numeral to designate a star in this constellation: the star Delta Crateris.

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