Meaning of HYADES
| Pronunciation: | | 'hIu`deez
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| | Definition: | | [n] (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 |
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| | Definition: | | \Hy"a*des\, Hyads \Hy"ads\, n.pl. [L. Hyades, Gr. ?.]
(Astron.)
A cluster of five stars in the face of the constellation
Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of
rainy weather when they rose with the sun.
Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyaned Vext the dim
sea. --Tennyson.
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| | Related Terms: | | absolute magnitude, Atlantides, Beehive, binary star, black hole, Cepheid variable, double star, dryad, dwarf star, fixed star, flower nymph, giant star, glen nymph, globular cluster, gravity star, hamadryad, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, limoniad, magnitude, main sequence star, mass-luminosity law, Messier catalog, mountain nymph, Napaea, neutron star, NGC, nova, nymph, nymphet, nymphlin, open cluster, oread, Pleiades, populations, pulsar, quasar, quasi-stellar radio source, radio star, red giant star, relative magnitude, Seven Sisters, sky atlas, spectrum-luminosity diagram, star, star catalog, star chart, star cloud, star cluster, stellar magnitude, supernova, tree nymph, variable star, vila, white dwarf star, willi, wood nymph |
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