Pluto

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pluto \Plu"to\ (pl[=u]"t[-o]), pr. n. [L., fr. Gr. Plou`twn.]
     1. (Class. Myth.) The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of
        Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower
        World.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. The ninth planet of the Solar System, the smallest (5700
        km radius) and most distant from the sun. The suggestion
        has been made that it more closely resembles a large close
        comet than a planet. Its orbit has an eccentricity of
        0.248, larger than that of any other planet; it varies
        from 4.44 to 7.37 billion km distance from the sun.
        [PJC]
  
              Pluto is an oddball among its eight sister planets.
              It's the smallest in both size and mass, and has the
              most elliptical orbit. It moves in a plane tilted
              markedly away from the other planets' orbits.
              Moreover, Pluto is the only planet made almost
              entirely of ice.                      --Ron Cohen
                                                    (Science News,
                                                    Feb. 27, 1999,
                                                    p. 139)
  
     {Pluto monkey} (Zool.), a long-tailed African monkey
        ({Cercopithecus pluto}), having side whiskers. The general
        color is black, more or less grizzled; the frontal band is
        white.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Pluto
       n 1: a cartoon character created by Walt Disney
       2: (Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient
          mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone [syn:
           {Hades}, {Aides}, {Aidoneus}]
       3: the second smallest planet and the farthest known from the
          sun; has the most elliptical orbit of all the planets

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "Pluto":
     Agdistis, Aides, Aidoneus, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares,
     Artemis, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Cerberus, Ceres, Charon, Cora,
     Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis,
     Dis pater, Earth, Erebus, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother,
     Hades, Hel, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen,
     Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur,
     Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore,
     Kronos, Loki, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Minos, Mithras,
     Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Osiris,
     Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Poseidon,
     Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhadamanthus, Rhea, Satan, Saturn, Tellus,
     Uranus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, asteroid, inferior planet,
     major planet, minor planet, planet, planetoid, secondary planet,
     solar system, superior planet, terrestrial planet, wanderer