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Hydrus

Hydrus proper noun: a winter constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a small serpent. It lies between the constellations Mensa and Tucana. It is not to be confused with the constellation Hydra.

Proper noun

Hydrus

  1. A winter constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a small serpent. It lies between the constellations Mensa and Tucana. It is not to be confused with the constellation Hydra.

Hydrus meaning in Tamil and Malay

Hydrus in Tamil

நீர்ப் பாம்பு, ஒரு விண்மீன்கள்கூட்டத்தின் பெயர்

Hydrus in Malay

constellation
Ular Air

Origin of Hydrus

Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From Latin hydrus (“water serpent”), originally from Ancient Greek Ὕδρα (Húdra, “Hydra”).

Words formed from Hydrus

  • Hydri

Questions about Hydrus

What does Hydrus mean?
Hydrus means a winter constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a small serpent. It lies between the constellations Mensa and Tucana. It is not to be confused with the constellation Hydra.
What is Hydrus in Tamil?
Hydrus in Tamil is நீர்ப் பாம்பு, ஒரு விண்மீன்கள்கூட்டத்தின் பெயர். See Hydrus meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Hydrus?
Hydrus is a proper noun.

Words near Hydrus in the dictionary

  1. Hydruntum
  2. hydruret
  3. hydrurets
  4. hydruria
  5. hydruric
  6. Hydrus
  7. hydræ
  8. hydræmia
  9. hydrœcia
  10. hydrœcium
  11. hydt

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Hydrus (page history and authors); hydrus (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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