Definitions for "Volans"
a small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Carina
Volans (IPA: , ) is a constellation of the southern sky. The constellation was one of twelve constellations created by Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597, and it first appeared in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603. The current name of the constellation is a shortening of the original name Piscis Volans, "flying fish".