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DELPHINUS

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or DOLPHIN, a genus of fishes Delphini, belonging to the order of Cete. See CETOLOGY. Delphinus Index.

Astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere; whose stars in Ptolemy's catalogue are 10; in Tycho's the same number; in Hevelius's 14; and in Flamsteed's 18.