ANDROMEDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Andromeda mean? 

• ANDROMEDA (noun)
  The noun ANDROMEDA has 4 senses:

1. broad-leaved evergreen Asiatic shrub with glossy leaves and drooping clusters of white flowers

2. any of several shrubs of the genus Andromeda having leathery leaves and clusters of small flowers

3. (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

4. a constellation in the northern hemisphere between Cassiopeia and Pegasus; contains the Andromeda galaxy

  Familiarity information: ANDROMEDA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANDROMEDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Broad-leaved evergreen Asiatic shrub with glossy leaves and drooping clusters of white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

andromeda; Japanese andromeda; lily-of-the-valley tree; Pieris japonica

Hypernyms ("andromeda" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("andromeda" is a member of...):

genus Pieris; Pieris (decorative evergreen shrubs of woody vines)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several shrubs of the genus Andromeda having leathery leaves and clusters of small flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("andromeda" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "andromeda"):

Andromeda glaucophylla; bog rosemary; moorwort (wiry evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of wet acidic areas in Arctic and Canada to northeastern United States)

Andromeda polifolia; common bog rosemary; marsh andromeda (erect to procumbent evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of sphagnum peat bogs and other wet acidic areas in northern Europe)

Holonyms ("andromeda" is a member of...):

genus Andromeda (low-growing shrubs of northern regions of northern hemisphere)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A constellation in the northern hemisphere between Cassiopeia and Pegasus; contains the Andromeda galaxy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

 Context examples 

As dark matter holds stars in their orbits, we can use their motions to measure the overall mass of the Andromeda galaxy, including the unseen dark matter.

(No Winner in Milky Way-Andromeda Clash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Many open questions remain about how galaxies merge and what will happen when the Milky Way approaches Andromeda, the nearby galaxy that will collide with ours in about 4 billion years.

(Listening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars, NASA)

A cosmic photobomb found as a background object in images of the nearby Andromeda galaxy has revealed what could be the most tightly coupled pair of supermassive black holes ever seen.

(Giant Black Hole Pair Photobombs Andromeda Galaxy, NASA)

In fact, we are due to collide and merge with our neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, in about 4 billion years.

(All we are is dust in the interstellar wind, NSF)

While the calculation was complicated, the result was unequivocal: previous estimates had overstated the total mass of Andromeda.

(No Winner in Milky Way-Andromeda Clash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This unusual source, called LGGS J004527.30+413254.3 (J0045+41 for short), was seen in optical and X-ray images of Andromeda, also known as M31.

(Giant Black Hole Pair Photobombs Andromeda Galaxy, NASA)

We know that the collision with Andromeda is coming in only a few billion years.

(No Winner in Milky Way-Andromeda Clash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Andromeda and the Milky Way galaxies are very similar, giant spirals containing hundreds of billions of individual stars.

(No Winner in Milky Way-Andromeda Clash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Our Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy—two giant galaxies in our local patch of the universe—are heading for an immense collision with each other in only a few billion years’ time.

(No Winner in Milky Way-Andromeda Clash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Both Andromeda and the Milky Way appear to have about the same total mass, about 800 billion times that of our sun, suggesting that the result of this intergalactic gravitational battle may actually be a tie.

(No Winner in Milky Way-Andromeda Clash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)