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Hyades
plural noun
- Gr. Myth. daughters of Atlas, placed in the sky by Zeus: as stars they were thought to be bringers of rain
- Astron. an open cluster of more than 200 stars in the constellation Taurus, whose five brightest members form a near Aldebaran
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