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pleiades 音标拼音: [pl'iəd ,iz] 淋巴结肿块 淋巴结肿块 Pleiades n 1: ( Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half- sisters of the Hyades; placed among the stars to save them from the pursuit of Orion 2: a star cluster in the constellation TaurusPleiades \ Ple" ia* des\ (?; 277), n. pl. [ L., fr. Gr. (?)] 1. ( Myth.) The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Astron.) A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus; -- called also { the seven sisters}. -- Job xxxviii. 31. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Alcyone, the brightest of these, a star of the third magnitude, was considered by M[ aum] dler the central point around which our universe is revolving, but such a notion has been thoroughly discounted by modern observations. Only six pleiads are distinctly visible to the naked eye, whence the ancients supposed that a sister had concealed herself out of shame for having loved a mortal, Sisyphus. [ 1913 Webster PJC] 56 Moby Thesaurus words for " Pleiades": 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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