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A Latin term with a proper name.
Also known as: Moon feature naming, Mare and crater naming
The IAU system naming features on the Moon, pairing a Latin descriptive term with a proper name.
Names features on the Moon by pairing a Latin descriptive term with a proper name.
Contexts: History
Keeps seventeenth-century terms that describe the features wrongly, the lunar seas being dry plains, because the names were fixed in use long before the mistake was known.
Contexts: History
A Latin descriptive term such as one for a sea or a bay, followed by a proper name, the whole set in ordinary Latin letters on a map.