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Star Common Name Constellation Full Name Translation/Reference Rolleston Language Identifier
Acrux A Cru Alpha Crux A short for Alpha Crux

Memoirs of the Rev. Walter M. Lowrie: missionary to China (1849), p. 93. Described as an "Americanism" in The Geographical Journal, vol. 92, Royal Geographical Society, 1938.
American, 19th C. * alf01 Cru
Acrux B Cru Alpha Crux B short for Alpha Crux

Memoirs of the Rev. Walter M. Lowrie: missionary to China (1849), p. 93. Described as an "Americanism" in The Geographical Journal, vol. 92, Royal Geographical Society, 1938.
American, 19th C. * alf02 Cru
Becrux Cru Becrux a modern contraction of "Beta Crux"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Crucis#Nomenclature
English * bet Cru
Gacrux Cru Gacrux short for Gamma Crux

Lesikar, Arnold V. "Gacrux". Dome Of The Sky. Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-11-03.
English; coined by astronomer Elijah Hinsdale Burritt (1838) * gam Cru
Ginan Cru

Ginan

a dilly bag - the "bag of songs"



https://www.iau.org/public/themes/naming_stars/

the Wardaman people of the Northern Territory of Australia * eps Cru
Imai Cru ceases to appear in the evening sky at dusk (around the end of August), it is said that the Omo [river] rises high enough to flatten the imai grass that grows along its banks, and then subsides. grass along the banks of the Omo River

https://www.universeguide.com/star/decrux
Ethiopian * del Cru
Mimosa Cru Mimosa genus of leguminous trees or shrubs

http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Mimosa.html
Latin * bet Cru