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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
Hesperides
    n 1: (Greek mythology) group of 3 to 7 nymphs who guarded the
         golden apples that Gaea gave as a wedding gift to Hera
         [syn: Hesperides, Atlantides]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hesperides \Hes*per"i*des\, n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. ?.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. (Class. Myth.) The daughters of Hesperus, or Night
      (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden
      producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western
      extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon
      and get some of these apples was one of the labors of
      Hercules. Called also Atlantides.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. The garden producing the golden apples.
      [1913 Webster]

            It not love a Hercules,
            Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]
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