Neptune
1. (Roman mythology) god of the sea;
counterpart of Greek Poseidon (Freq. 1)
• Topics:
Roman mythology
• Instance Hypernyms:
Roman deity
2. a giant planet with a ring of ice particles;
the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants
- the existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846
• Instance Hypernyms:
Jovian planet, gas giant, superior planet, outer planet
• Member Holonyms:
solar system
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