Definition of hyades Hyades
/hajˈʌdiˌz/ - [hayudeez] - Hy•a•des
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What does hyades mean?
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| hyades - (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 | ||
| nymph a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly) | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- hyades (n.pl.)
Alt. of Hyads
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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hyades
hī′a-dēz, Hyads, hī′adz, n. a cluster of five stars in the constellation of the Bull, supposed by the ancients to bring rain when they rose with the sun. [Gr. hyades, explained by the ancients as from hyein, to rain; more prob.=little pigs, hys, a pig.]
