andromeda | (n) broad-leaved evergreen Asiatic shrub with glossy leaves and drooping clusters of white flowers, Syn. Japanese andromeda, Pieris japonica, lily-of-the-valley tree |
andromeda | (n) any of several shrubs of the genus Andromeda having leathery leaves and clusters of small flowers |
andromeda | (n) (Greek mythology) an Ethiopian princess and daughter of Cassiopeia; she was fastened to a rock and exposed to a sea monster that was sent by Poseidon, but she was rescued by Perseus and became his wife |
andromeda | (n) a constellation in the northern hemisphere between Cassiopeia and Pegasus; contains the Andromeda galaxy |
andromeda galaxy | (n) a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Andromeda that is visible to the naked eye |
genus andromeda | (n) low-growing shrubs of northern regions of northern hemisphere |
marsh andromeda | (n) erect to procumbent evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of sphagnum peat bogs and other wet acidic areas in northern Europe, Syn. Andromeda polifolia, common bog rosemary |
bog rosemary | (n) wiry evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of wet acidic areas in Arctic and Canada to northeastern United States, Syn. moorwort, Andromeda glaucophylla |
coffee fern | (n) evergreen fern of California and Baja California, Syn. Pellaea andromedifolia |
fetterbush | (n) ornamental evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small white bell-shaped flowers, Syn. mountain andromeda, mountain fetterbush, Pieris floribunda |
maleberry | (n) deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers, Syn. male berry, Lyonia ligustrina, he-huckleberry, privet andromeda |