uranus

Noun
  1. (Greek mythology) god of the heavens;
    Son and husband of Gaea and father of the Titans in ancient mythology (synset 109591180)
    referred to in: greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks
    is an instance of: greek deity - a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks
    same as: ouranos
  2. A giant planet with a ring of ice particles;
    The 7th planet from the sun has a blue-green color and many satellites (synset 109490547)
    "Uranus was discovered by William Herschel in 1781"
    is an instance of:
    • gas giant, jovian planet - any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter)
    • outer planet - (astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)
    • superior planet - any of the planets whose orbit lies outside the earth's orbit
    belongs to: solar system - the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field

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