Hesperides
[he-sper-i-deez] /hɛˈspɛr ɪˌdiz/
noun
1.
Classical Mythology.
2.
(italics) (used with a plural verb) a collection of poems (1648) by Robert Herrick.
/hɛˈspɛrɪˌdiːz/
plural noun (Greek myth)
1.
the daughters of Hesperus, nymphs who kept watch with a dragon over the garden of the golden apples in the Islands of the Blessed
2.
(functioning as sing) the gardens themselves
3.
another name for the Islands of the Blessed
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