- (n.pl.) The garden producing the golden apples.
- (n.pl.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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