Hyades
Meanings
name
- Daughters of the Titan Atlas and sisters of the Pleiades.
- An open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus, and the nearest visible such cluster to Earth.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Middle English Hyades, Yades, from Latin Hyades, from Ancient Greek Ὑάδες (Huádes), nominative and vocative plural of Ὑ̄̆ᾰ́ς (Hū̆ắs, “one of the Hyades”).
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