\Hes*per"i*des\, n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. ?.]
1. (Class. Myth.) The daughters of Hesperus, or Night
   (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden
   producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western
   extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon
   and get some of these apples was one of the labors of
   Hercules. Called also {Atlantides}.
2. The garden producing the golden apples.
         It not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the
         Hesperides?                           --Shak.