The name is a somewhat corrupted feminized Latin form for the original Greek name that meant “the Grape Gatherer,” as the first visibility of the star in morning light after the Sun cleared out of the way (the “heliacal rising”) told that it was time to pick the grapes.
Tectonic action that continues to the present has wrenched the layered rocks into an uplifted arch that geologists call an anticline, which forms the string of foothill peaks now known as Tiger Mountain, Squak Mountain and Cougar Mountain.