Definitions

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

[From Andromeda.]

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