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Hesperidene
Hesperidene Hes*per"i*dene, n. [See Hesperidium.] (Chem.) An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.
Hesperides
Hesperides Hes*per"i*des, n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] 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. 2. The garden producing the golden apples. It not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? --Shak.

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- In Gr**** mythology, the Hesperides (/hɛˈspɛrɪdiːz/; Ancient Gr****: Ἑσπερίδες, Gr**** pronunciation: [hesperídes]) are the nymphs of evening and golden light...
- Hesperides are nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world in Gr**** mythology. Hesperides may also refer to: Hesperides, Libya...
- Hespérides Point (Spanish: Punta Hespérides) is a rocky point of land projecting into South Bay north-northwest of Johnsons Dock, Livingston Island in...
- Hesperides (/hɛˈspɛrɪdiːz/) (complete title, Hesperides; or the Works both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq.) is a book of poetry published in 1648...
- BIO Hespérides (A-33), is a Spanish polar research vessel. She was built in 1990, by Bazán Shipyards of Cartagena, Spain. Hespérides is used to service...
- The Graveyard of the Hesperides is a 2016 historical mystery crime novel by Lindsey Davis and the fourth book in the Flavia Albia (Falco: The New Generation)...
- Hespérides Trough (60°21′S 50°50′W / 60.350°S 50.833°W / -60.350; -50.833) is an undersea trough named for the Spanish research vessel Hespérides....
- Hesperides Hill (Halm Hesperides \'h&lm he-spe-'ri-des\) is a ridge linked by a saddle of elevation 52 m with the northern slopes of Atlantic Club Ridge...
- Epimetheus and Prometheus. He had many children, mostly daughters, the Hesperides, the Hyades, the Pleiades, and the nymph Calypso who lived on the island...
- the éric items demanded by Lugh Lamhfada included the Golden Apples of Hesperides. It is said to taste of honey, have curative powers, and not diminish...