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pleiades
(encz) | Pleiades, |
Pleiades
(gcide) | Pleiades \Ple"ia*des\ (?; 277), n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. (?)]
1. (Myth.) The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph
Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a
constellation in the sky.
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2. (Astron.) A group of small stars in the neck of the
constellation Taurus; -- called also the seven sisters.
--Job xxxviii. 31.
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Note: Alcyone, the brightest of these, a star of the third
magnitude, was considered by M[aum]dler the central
point around which our universe is revolving, but such
a notion has been thoroughly discounted by modern
observations. Only six pleiads are distinctly visible
to the naked eye, whence the ancients supposed that a
sister had concealed herself out of shame for having
loved a mortal, Sisyphus.
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pleiades
(wn) | Pleiades
n 1: (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of
the Hyades; placed among the stars to save them from the
pursuit of Orion
2: a star cluster in the constellation Taurus |
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pleiades
(encz) | Pleiades, |
pleiades
(wn) | Pleiades
n 1: (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of
the Hyades; placed among the stars to save them from the
pursuit of Orion
2: a star cluster in the constellation Taurus |
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