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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'Albireo' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions Albireo proper noun  (star): A binary star in the constellation Cygnus; Beta (β) Cygni. Translations:  French: Albireo German: Albireo Spanish: Albireo Etymology: From (Arab.), via misunderstandings and mistranslations. The name of the star was originally al-Minhar al-Dajajah, "the hen's beak". Latin scholars misunderstood the name to come from a kind of herb, and translated it into ab ireo ("from ireus"). Later, people considered it as a misprint of an Arabic term, and transcribed it as al-bireo.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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