2. The garden producing the golden apples.

It not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?

Shak.

Hes*per"i*din (?), n. [See Hesperidium.] (Chem.) A glucoside found in

ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white

crystalline substance.

||Hes`pe*rid"i*um (?), n. [NL. So called in allusion to the golden

||apples of the Hesperides. See Hesperides.] (Bot.) A large berry with

||a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange.

||Hes`pe*ror"nis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; western + &?;, &?;, a bird.]

||(Paleon.) A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the

||Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They

||had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches.

||Several species are known. See Illust. in Append.

||Hes"pe*rus (?), n. [L. See Hesper.] 1. Venus when she is the evening

||star; Hesper.

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