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.

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An‐drom″e‐da (�), n. [] 1. 1. (Astron.) A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.
2. 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.