HYADES


Meaning of HYADES in English

n.pl. a group of stars in Taurus near the Pleiades, whose heliacal rising was once thought to foretell rain.

[ ME f. Gk Huades (by popular etym. f. huo rain, but perh. f. hus pig) ]

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