Pleiades \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.
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2. (Astron.) A group of small stars in the neck of the
constellation Taurus; -- called also the seven sisters.
--Job xxxviii. 31.