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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Hy·a·des /ˈhaɪəˌdiz/
 Atlas的七個女兒

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hy·a·des Hy·ads n. pl.  Astron. A cluster of five stars in the face of the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun.
 Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
 Vext the dim sea.   --Tennyson.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Hyades
      n : (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of
          the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus
          placed them among the stars as a reward