danaides plural
Da·na·i·des
The plural form of danaides is danaid
D dDefinitions
- noun plural danaides the fifty daughters of Danaüs. All but Hypermnestra murdered their bridegrooms and were punished in Hades by having to pour water perpetually into a jar with a hole in the bottom 3
- noun plural danaides the fifty daughters of Danaus, a king of Argos: forty-nine murder their husbands at their father's command and are condemned in Hades to draw water forever with a sieve 3