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OUTER PLANET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("outer 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)
Domain category:
astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)
Instance hyponyms:
Jupiter (the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky)
Neptune (a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants)
Saturn (a giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; the 6th planet from the sun)
Uranus (a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 7th planet from the sun has a blue-green color and many satellites)
Holonyms ("outer planet" is a member of...):
solar system (the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field)
