Astr. [L. vulpēcula, dim. of vulpēs fox.] A small northern constellation lying between Hercules and Pegasus.
More fully called Vulpecula et anser (fox and goose) or cum ansere.
1866. Lockyer, Guillemin’s Heavens, 407. Another remarkable example of these optical transformations … is furnished by a nebula situated in the constellation Vulpecula.
