Andromeda: Definition and part of speech

Andromeda

  1. n. A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.
  2. n. A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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