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say it: an-DRAH-muh-duh
andromeda is a noun meaning "broad-leaved evergreen Asiatic shrub with glossy leaves and drooping clusters of white flowers". It is pronounced /ænˈdɹɑmədə/ — an-DRAH-muh-duh. It carries 4 recorded senses.
broad-leaved evergreen Asiatic shrub with glossy leaves and drooping clusters of white flowers
any of several shrubs of the genus Andromeda having leathery leaves and clusters of small flowers
(Greek mythology) an Ethiopian princess and daughter of Cassiopeia; she was fastened to a rock and exposed to a sea monster that was sent by Poseidon, but she was rescued by Perseus and became his wife
Greek mythology
a constellation in the northern hemisphere between Cassiopeia and Pegasus; contains the Andromeda galaxy
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for andromeda come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.