Meaning Of The Word Hesperides

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Hesperides in American English
the garden where the apples grow
the nymphs who guard the golden apples given as a wedding gift by Gaea to Hera
noun: nymphs, variously given as three to seven in number, who guarded with the dragon Ladon the golden apples that were the wedding gift of Gaea to Hera

Hesperides in British English
plural noun: the daughters of Hesperus, nymphs who kept watch with a dragon over the garden of the golden apples in the Islands of the Blessed

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