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What does Hyades mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Greek) Daughters of the Titan Atlas and sisters of the Pleiades.
  2. (astronomy) An open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus, and the nearest visible such cluster to Earth.
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With Aldebaran rises the beautiful V-shaped group of the Hyades.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa.
Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.
Spenser's term for the Hyades, a group of seven stars in the head of the Bull.
Above Orion lies Taurus containing two of the best known open clusters, the Hyades and the Pleiades with the latter being far more photogenic than the former.
He was peculiarly named Hues, and his priests were the Hyades and Hyautes.

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