/perr"see euhs, -syoohs/ , n., gen. Persei /-see uy'/ for 3.
1. Class. Myth. a hero, the son of Zeus and Danaë, who slew the Gorgon Medusa, and afterward saved Andromeda from a sea monster.
2. Astron. a northern constellation between Cassiopeia and Taurus, containing the variable star Algol.