hesperides Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (Greek mythology) group of 3 to 7 nymphs who guarded the golden apples that Gaea gave as a wedding gift to Hera
    Atlantides.

WordNet

Hes*per"i*des noun plural
Etymology
L., fr. Gr. .
Definitions
  1. (Class. Myth.) The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides.
  2. The garden producing the golden apples.
    It not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Shak.

Webster 1913