Ursa Minor
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From Latin ursa minor, the "lesser bear"
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- (astronomy) A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a bear. It includes the familiar asterism the Little Dipper and, as part of it, the northern pole star Polaris.
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a circumpolar constellation of the northern sky
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