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Webster 1913 Edition
Andromeda
An-drom′e-da
,Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK], the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia. When bound to a rock and exposed to a sea monster, she was delivered by Perseus.]
1.
(Astron.)
A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.
2.
(bot.)
A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.
Webster 1828 Edition
Andromeda
ANDROM'EDA
,Noun.
1.
A northern constellation, behind Pegasus, Cassiopeia and Perseus, representing the figure of a woman chained. The stars in this constellation, in Ptolemy's catalogue, are 23; in Tycho's 22; in Bayer's 27; in Flamsted's 84.2.
The name of a celebrated tragedy of Euripides, now lost.