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Definition of Asterope
1. Noun. (Greek mythology) one of the 7 Pleiades.
Category relationships: Greek Mythology
Generic synonyms: Nymph
Group relationships: Pleiades
2. Noun. One of the stars in the star cluster Pleiades.
Definition of Asterope
1. n. One of the Pleiades; -- called also Sterope.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asterope
Literary usage of Asterope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1889)
"Thus he figures large cells with huge nuclei at the posterior ends of the neural
foundations in Asterope (No. 31, Taf. 14, Fig. ..."
2. The Friendly Stars by Martha Evans Martin (1907)
"Asterope is between the seventh and the eighth magnitude, and very few persons
can see ... Asterope, Taygeta, and Atlas each have a companion star — that is ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1888)
"At present Merope is one of those that can be plainly seen with the naked eye,
while the star of Asterope, who was said to have had the god Mars for her ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1906)
"Genus (38) Asterope, Philippi, 1840. 129. Asterope marice (Baird). 1850. ...
Asterope mariae, B. and N., 1. c., Part II. p. 630, pi. 1. figs. 1-6 et seq. ..."
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