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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several evergreen shrubs of the genera Pieris or Andromeda in the heath family.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A northern constellation, surrounded by Pegasus, Cassiopeia, Perseus, Pisces, Aries, etc., supposed to represent the figure of a woman chained. The constellation contains three stars of the second magnitude, of which the brightest is Alpheratz.
- noun [NL.] A genus of plants, natural order Ericaceæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Astron.) A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.
- noun (bot.) A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any shrubs of the genus
Pieris , having leathery leaves and small flowers. - noun
Bog rosemary .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a constellation in the northern hemisphere between Cassiopeia and Pegasus; contains the Andromeda galaxy
- noun (Greek mythology) an Ethiopian princess and daughter of Cassiopeia; she was fastened to a rock and exposed to a sea monster that was sent by Poseidon, but she was rescued by Perseus and became his wife
- noun any of several shrubs of the genus Andromeda having leathery leaves and clusters of small flowers
- noun broad-leaved evergreen Asiatic shrub with glossy leaves and drooping clusters of white flowers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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