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hyades

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Noun Plural
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Hy=a=des

CIDE DICTIONARY

hyadesn. 
     The seven 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 1.5]
hyadesn. pl. [L. Hyades, Gr. .].
     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.  [1913 Webster]
    "Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
    Vext the dim sea.
    "  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hyades, n.pl. a group of stars in Taurus near the Pleiades, whose heliacal rising was once thought to foretell rain.

Etymology
ME f. Gk Huades (by popular etym. f. huo rain, but perh. f. hus pig)

THESAURUS

hyades

Atlantides, Beehive, Cepheid variable, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, Messier catalog, NGC, Napaea, Pleiades, Seven Sisters, absolute magnitude, binary star, black hole, double star, dryad, dwarf star, fixed star, flower nymph, giant star, glen nymph, globular cluster, gravity star, hamadryad, limoniad, magnitude, main sequence star, mass-luminosity law, mountain nymph, neutron star, nova, nymph, nymphet, nymphlin, open cluster, oread, populations, pulsar, quasar, quasi-stellar radio source, radio star, red giant star, relative magnitude, 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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