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Cepheus

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cassiopeianoun	(astronomy) A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky representing Queen Cassiopeia from Greek myth, lying between the constellations Cepheus and Perseus.
cassiopenoun	Alternative form of Cassiopeia. [(Greek mythology) Proud wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda, queen of Ethiopia. When she boasted that her beauty was equal to that of the Nereids, she was punished by Poseidon.]
andromedanoun	(astronomy) The nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, located within the Andromeda constellation (see Andromeda Galaxy); M31.
cephalusnoun	(Greek mythology) An ancient Greek lover of Procris who accidentally slew her as she spied upon him.
ceyxnoun	(Greek mythology) A king who was transformed into a kingfisher, together with his wife Alcyone.
aeropenoun	(Greek mythology) The daughter of Catreus, king of Crete, and sister to Clymene, Apemosyne and Althaemenes. Catreus gave her to Nauplius, to be drowned or sold abroad, but Nauplius spared her.
perseusnoun	(Greek mythology) The mythological Greek warrior who slew the Gorgon Medusa by decapitating her. He married Andromeda after rescuing her from Ceto and founded Mycenae. He was the son of Zeus and Danae.
argiopenoun	(Greek mythology) Any one of several figures of Greek mythology.
caelusnoun	(Roman mythology) The personification of the sky and heavens. Either the brother-husband or son-and-husband of Terra, with whom he fathered the Titans and the Cyclops. He is the Roman counterpart of Uranus.
alcyonenoun	(astronomy) One of the stars of the Pleiades star cluster, named after the mythical character.
alderaminnoun	A star in the constellation of Cepheus.
theianoun	(astronomy) A hypothesised Mars-sized planet of the early solar system thought to have collided with the Earth to produce the Moon.
eacusnoun	Alternative form of Aeacus. [(Greek mythology) A king of the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf, one of the three judges in Hades.]
cecaelianoun	A composite mythical being, combining the head, arms and torso of a woman (more rarely a man) and, from the lower torso down, the tentacles of an octopus or squid as a form of mermaid, sea witch, or sea demon.
coeusnoun	(Greek mythology) The Titan of intelligence; the father of Leto and Asteria.
shafalusnoun	Archaic form of Cephalus. [(Greek mythology) An ancient Greek lover of Procris who accidentally slew her as she spied upon him.]
aeacusnoun	(Greek mythology) A king of the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf, one of the three judges in Hades.
pasiphaenoun	(astronomy) One of the moons of Jupiter.
cerberusnoun	(Greek mythology) The giant three-headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades; and one of the many offspring of Echidna and Typhon.
aeacidnoun	Relating to the descendants of Aeacus.