hesperides in English

noun
1
a group of nymphs who were guardians, with the aid of a watchful dragon, of a tree of golden apples in a garden located beyond the Atlas Mountains at the western border of Oceanus, the river encircling the world. One of the labors of Hercules was to fetch the golden apples.

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1. Ancient names: Hesperides or Berenice

2. 21 Lizette curtsied. "Good evening, m'am. Are these the apples of the Hesperides?"

3. Arethusa (mythology), a nereid nymph who became a fountain Arethusa, one of the Hesperides nymphs; Places

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5. Aphides •Andes •Hades, Mercedes •Archimedes • Thucydides • Aphides •Eumenides, Parmenides•Maimonides, Simonides •Euripides • cantharides • Hesperides •Hebrides •Aristides, bona fides•Culdees •Alcibiades, Hyades, Pleiades•Cyclades • antipodes • Sporades •Ganges • Apelles •tales, Thales•Achilles, Antilles •Los Angeles • Ramillies • Pericles

6. John, in visage, in shape, in hue, as unlike the dark, Acerb, and caustic little professor, as the fruit of the Hesperides might be unlike the sloe in the wild thicket; as the high-couraged but tractable

7. ‘A Collected edition of his poems was published as Hesperides.’ ‘Apart from Collected editions, this poem has been reprinted twenty-seven times, and some are variants.’ ‘A Collected edition of his writings, Tutti gli scritti, was published in 1978.’ ‘The Collected edition of …