Hyades
WordNet
noun
(1) (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed them among the stars as a reward
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Proper noun
Hyades
- An open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus, and the nearest visible such cluster to Earth.
- Daughters of the Titan Atlas and sisters of the Pleiades.