Usually means: Nymphs guarding golden apples, mythology.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hesperides: Merriam-Webster
  2. Hesperides: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Hesperides: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Hesperides: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Hesperides: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hesperides: Wordnik
  7. Hesperides: Wiktionary
  8. Hesperides: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Hesperides: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Hesperides, hesperides: Dictionary.com
  11. Hesperides (disambiguation), Hesperides (poetry), Hesperides (poetry collection), Hesperides, The Hesperides: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Hesperides: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. hesperides: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Hesperides: Rhymezone
  15. Hesperides: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. hesperides: FreeDictionary.org
  17. hesperides: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Hesperides: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Hesperides: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. Hesperides: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia Mythica (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hesperides, The Hesperides: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Hesperides)

noun:  (Greek mythology) A group of nymphs who tend a blissful garden filled with trees that grew golden apples in a far western corner of the world, located in Libya or the Atlas Mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus; they are said to be the daughters of Hesperus.
noun:  (Greek mythology) The garden of the Hesperides.
noun:  (figuratively) A paradisaical land of plenty, especially one in the far West.

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