Hyades

  1. Proper noun.  (astronomy) An open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus, and the nearest visible such cluster to Earth.
  2. Proper noun.  (Greek mythology) Daughters of the Titan Atlas and sisters of the Pleiades.

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