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Pleiad [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One of the Pleiades.

Pleiades [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.

2. A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus.

Pleiads [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. ple'yads. [Latin Pleiades; Gr. to sail, as the rising of seven stars indicated the time of safe navigation.]

2. In astronomy, a cluster of seven stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus. The Latins called them Vergilioe, from ver, spring, because of their rising about the vernal equinox.