An-drŏm'e-dā, n.

n. [Gr. Ἀνδρομέδα, daughter of the Ethiopian king Cepheus and Cassiopeia, and afterward wife of Perseus; placed after her death as a constellation in the heavens.]

1. (Astron.) A northern constellation, behind Pegasus, Cassiopeia, and Perseus, representing the figure of a woman chained.
2. (Bot.) A genus of ericaceous or heath plants.