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Hyades
[ hahy-uh-deez ]
noun
- Astronomy. a group of stars comprising a moving cluster in the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the approach of rain when they rose with the sun.
- Classical Mythology. a group of nymphs and sisters of the Pleiades who nurtured the infant Dionysus and were placed among the stars as a reward.
Hyades
1/ ˈhaɪəˌdiːz /
plural noun
- Greek myth seven nymphs, daughters of Atlas, whom Zeus placed among the stars after death
Hyades
2/ ˈhaɪəˌdiːz; ˈhaɪædz /
plural noun
- an open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus Compare Pleiades 1
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of Hyades1
Example Sentences
Among these include many of the stars in and around the Hyades cluster.
Siegfried Röser, an astronomer at Heidelberg University in Germany who led one of the two teams that discovered the cluster’s tails, agrees that the Hyades is in its sunset years.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa.
Some have suggested that the first two letters are from ὕειν, to rain, (cf. Hyades).
He was peculiarly named Ὑης; and his priests were the Hyades, and Hyantes.
The inexperienced observer is certain to be surprised by the display of stars which an opera-glass brings to view in the Hyades.
And now let us look at the Hyades, an assemblage of stars not less beautiful than their more celebrated sisters the Pleiades.
A good example is the cluster in the Hyades, where Boss has studied thirty-nine stars with special care.
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