| NOUN | person | Pleiades | (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Hyades |
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| object | Pleiades | a star cluster in the constellation Taurus |
| Sounds | pliy'ahdiy.z | |
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| Rhymes | Achilles ... Yerkes: 115 rhymes with iyz... | |
| Meaning | (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Hyades; placed among the stars to save them from the pursuit of Orion. | |
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| Category | Greek mythology | The mythology of the ancient Greeks |
| Members | Sterope, Asterope | (Greek mythology) one of the 7 Pleiades |
| Broader | nymph | (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden |
| Spanish | Pléyades | |
| Catalan | plèiades, Plèiades | |
| Meaning | A star cluster in the constellation Taurus. | |
|---|---|---|
| Instance of | bunch, clump, cluster, clustering | A grouping of a number of similar things |
| Member of | Taurus | A zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere near Orion |
| Members | Sterope, Asterope | One of the stars in the star cluster Pleiades |
| Spanish | Pléyades | |
| Catalan | Plèiades | |
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