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• andromeda
  andromeda

  noun

  Japanese andromeda.
• Andromeda
  Andromeda

  noun

  an Ethiopian princess, the daughter of Cassiopeia and wife of Perseus, by whom she had been rescued from a sea monster.

andromeda

¹ American  

[an-drom-i-duh] / ænˈdrɒm ɪ də /

noun

1. Japanese andromeda.

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Andromeda ² American  

[an-drom-i-duh] / ænˈdrɒm ɪ də /

noun

• Andromedae
  genitive

1. Classical Mythology. an Ethiopian princess, the daughter of Cassiopeia and wife of Perseus, by whom she had been rescued from a sea monster.

2. Astronomy. the Chained Lady, a northern constellation between Pisces and Cassiopeia.

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Andromeda ¹ British  

/ ænˈdrɒmɪdə /

noun

1. a constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Cassiopeia and Pegasus, the three brightest stars being of the second magnitude. It contains the Andromeda Galaxy a spiral galaxy 2.2 million light years away

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Andromeda ² British  

/ ænˈdrɒmɪdə /

noun

1. Greek myth the daughter of Cassiopeia and wife of Perseus, who saved her from a sea monster

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Andromeda Scientific  

/ ăn-drŏm′ĭ-də /

1. A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere near Perseus and Pegasus. It contains a spiral-shaped galaxy that, at a distance of 2.2 million light-years, is the farthest celestial object visible to the naked eye.

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Botany cannot go farther than tell me the names of the shrubs which grow there—the high blueberry, panicled andromeda, lambkill, azalea, and rhodora—all standing in the quaking sphagnum.

From Walking by Henry David Thoreau

Botany cannot go farther than tell me the names of the shrubs which grow there—the high-blueberry, panicled andromeda, lamb-kill, azalea, and rhodora—all standing in the quaking sphagnum.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Charles William Eliot

I see two varieties of euonymus; various low junipers; two sorts of laurel; two of andromeda, and the high-clambering evergreen ivy.

From The Amateur Garden by George Washington Cable

A white andromeda was still in flower on the hillsides, but the rhododendrons were all over.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury

But the Andromeda note highlights that losses are mounting.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

German investigators trying to establish who sabotaged Nord Stream discovered the Andromeda in dry dock on the island of Rügen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Croatia delivers a similarly harrowing story on Andromeda.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

One notable exception is our neighboring galaxy Andromeda, which is moving toward the Milky Way at roughly 100 kilometers per second.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2026

He served on the Nitsa, the Andromeda, he sailed all the way until 1988, when he landed in Houston and decided to explore inland.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

This extremely long capture sequence shows the circumpolar star Almach, also known as Gamma Andromedae, just touching the horizon.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2018

But researchers have already spotted planetary systems where t’s happened, in orbit around the star Upsilon Andromedae.

From Forbes ● Apr. 16, 2014

He also stated that Kappa Andromedae is 50 light-years away.

From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2012

Kappa Andromedae is a massive star about 50 light years away and easily visible to the unaided eye.

From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2012

The second brightest star in the constellation Andromeda, called Beta Andromedae, is seventy-five light-years away.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan