Definition of Triangulum Australe

1. Noun. A small bright constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Circinus and Apus.

Exact synonyms: Southern Triangle
Generic synonyms: Constellation

Definition of Triangulum Australe

1. Proper noun. (constellation) A winter constellation of the southern sky, which has three bright stars that form a triangle. It lies north of the constellation Apus, between Ara and Circinus. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Triangulum Australe

Trevithick
Trevor
Trevor's disease
Trewartha
Trey
Treys
TriBeCa
Triaenodon
Triaenodon obseus
Triakidae
Trialeurodes
Trialeurodes vaporariorum
Triangle
Triangle Pose
Triangulum
Triangulum Australe (current term)
Triangulum Galaxy
Triavil
Tribecan
Tribecans
Tribes of Israel
Tribonema
Tribonemaceae
Tribulation
Tribulus
Tribulus terestris
Trichechidae
Trichechus

Literary usage of Triangulum Australe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Round the Year with the Stars: The Chief Beauties of the Starry Heavens as by Garrett Putman Serviss (1910)
"... Apus, Chameleon, Piscis Volans, Triangulum Australe, Dorado, Toucan, and Hydrus, were all named by Bayer at the beginning of the seventeenth century, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"It is surrounded by Apus, Musca, Centaurus, Lupus, Norma and Triangulum Australe. CIRCLE, in geometry, a plane figure contained by one line, which is called ..."

3. Astronomy for Young Folks by Isabel Martin Lewis (1922)
"Triangulum Australe, The Southern Triangle, a little to the southeast of Alpha Centauri, is far more conspicuous than the Triangulum of the northern ..."

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