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Hyades

//ˈhaɪ.ədiːz// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Daughters of the Titan Atlas and sisters of the Pleiades. Greek
  2. 2
    An open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus, and the nearest visible such cluster to Earth.

    "An early Grecian gem shows three nude figures, hand in hand, standing on the head of the Bull, one pointing to seven stars in line over the back, which Landseer referred to the Hyades."

Noun
  1. 1
    (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed them among the stars as a reward wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English Hyades, Yades, from Latin Hyades, from Ancient Greek Ὑάδες (Huádes), nominative and vocative plural of Ὑ̄̆ᾰ́ς (Hū̆ắs, “one of the Hyades”).

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