Hyades noun pl. ['hʌɪǝdi:z] LME.[Greek Huades, according to popular etym. from huein to rain but perh. actually from hus pig, SWINE (the Latin name being Suculae little pigs).](The name of) a group of stars near the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus, the heliacal rising of which was once thought to foretell rain.
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