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Etymology
ōceanus + procellārum. From Ōceanus Procellārum. Coined by Italian Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli, by labelling a map created by Italian Jesuit optician Francesco Maria Grimaldi, and then published in 1651 in the Almagestum novum.[1][2]
Proper noun
Ōceanus procellārum m sg (genitive Ōceanī procellārum); second declension
- (planetology) The Ocean of Storms (“Oceanus Procellarum”): a basin in Nearside, Moon, Earth, Solar System.
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