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Prae⋅se⋅pe

  [pri-see-pee, prahy-suh-pee]
–noun Astronomy.
an open star cluster in the center of the constellation Cancer, visible to the naked eye.
Also called Beehive cluster, Manger.

Origin:
1650–60; < L praesēpe crib from which cattle or horses are fed, manger; the neighboring brighter stars Gamma and Delta Cancri (Asellus Borealis and Asellus Australis) were pictured as asses which fed from a manger
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