What's the difference between hyades and pleiades?

Hyades


Definition:

  • (n.pl.) Alt. of Hyads

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Open reading frames hyaD through F could encode polypeptides of 21.5, 14.9, and 31.5 kilodaltons, respectively.

Pleiades


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.
  • (n. pl.) A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among the pleiad of physicians who definitely introduced tracheal intubation in clinical practice, several Spanish physicians especially contributed to its diffusion with their research work and discoveries and in some cases they were true pioneers in techniques considered as so advanced at the beginning of this century that it was thought they would never be systematically used in clinical practice.
  • (2) There are chapters – when one of the Pleiades comes to earth or Mary Poppins is hailed as a goddess at the zoo – which sound as if they could have been written by the theosophist Madame Blavatsky on a particularly dotty day.
  • (3) As a result of the study correlation pleiads of soil micromycete complexes have been revealed with their structure and fungal genera characteristic of such complexes determined.
  • (4) The overwhelming majority of correlation pleiads of fungal complexes are attributed to complex-organized ones and this indicated high radioresistance of mycobiota in the studied, soils.
  • (5) Melanine-containing genera of fungi rank among the first in formation of correlation pleiads of soil micromycete complexes.

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