hyades

• POS: Noun Plural
• HYPHEN: Hy=a=des

CIDE DICTIONARY

hyades, n. 

 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]

hyades, n. 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

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