(zoology) Any member of the Hesperomyinae.

plural of hesperomyine

plural of hesperidium

(Greek mythology) any one of the Hesperides

(Greek mythology) A group of nymphs who tend a blissful garden filled with trees that grew golden apples in a far western corner of the world, located in Libya or the Atlas mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus; they are said to be the daughters of Hesperus.

Literally "western land", a term poetically applied by Ancient Greeks to Italy and by Romans to the Iberian Peninsula and Western Africa. / (Greek mythology) One of the Hesperides.

plural of Hesperid

plural of hesperidin

Any of the clade †Hesperornithes of extinct toothed birds.

plural of hesperornithiform