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Robur Carolinum
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English
thumb|right|250px|Map VII from the 1856 Atlas to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens, depicting "Robur Caroli" or "King Charles's Oak"
Etymology
From en la Robur Carolinum the Caroline or Charles oak in Edmund Halley's 1679 Catalogus Stellarum Australium, named for the Royal Oak in Boscobel Wood where Charles Stuart (later Charles II of England Charles II of England) hid from the victorious troops of Oliver Cromwell after the 1651 Battle of Worcester during the War of the Three Kingdoms.
Proper noun
Robur Carolinum
en historical _ astronomy A former constellation in the Southern Hemisphere now forming parts of Vela and Carina.
Synonyms
en Robur Caroli, en Robur Caroli II
Translations
French: fr Chêne de Charles, fr Chêne de Charles II
German: de Carls Eiche
Latin: la Robur Carolinum, la Robur Caroli, la Robur Caroli II
en eponyms terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁rewdʰ-
en Constellations Asterisms