INFERIOR PLANET

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the planets whose orbit lies inside the earth's orbit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("inferior planet" is a kind of...):

major planet; planet ((astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction)

Instance hyponyms:

Mercury (the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun)

Venus (the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early 'morning star' or an 'evening star')

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