Pleiades

Definition of Pleiades

Ple´ia`des

n. pl.	1.	(Myth.) The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.
	2.	(Astron.) A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus; - called also the seven sisters.

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Atlantides, Beehive, Cepheid variable, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, Hyades, Messier catalog, NGC, Napaea, Seven Sisters, absolute magnitude, binary star, black hole, double star, dryad, dwarf star, fixed star, flower nymph, giant star, glen nymph, globular cluster, gravity star, hamadryad, limoniad, magnitude, main sequence star, mass-luminosity law, mountain nymph, neutron star, nova, nymph, nymphet, nymphlin, open cluster, oread, populations, pulsar, quasar, quasi-stellar radio source, radio star, red giant star, relative magnitude, sky atlas, spectrum-luminosity diagram, star, star catalog, star chart, star cloud, star cluster, stellar magnitude, supernova, tree nymph, variable star, vila, white dwarf star, willi, wood nymph

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