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

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／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