1. (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed them among the stars as a reward

Type of: nymph

Encyclopedia: Hyades

• pitcher sage
• pitcher's mound
• pitcher-plant family
• pitcher-shaped
• pitcherful
• pitchfork
• pitching
• pitching change
• pitching coach
• pitching wedge
• pitchman
• pitchstone
• pitchy
• piteous
• piteously
• piteousness
• pitfall
• pith
• pith hat
• pith helmet
• pithead
• Pithecanthropus
• Pithecanthropus erectus
• Pithecellobium
• Pithecellobium dulce