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PLUTO
Pluto
(noun) a large asteroid that was once thought to be the farthest known planet from the sun; it has an elliptical orbit; “Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930”
Pluto, Dis, Dis Pater, Orcus
(noun) (Roman mythology) god of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Hades
Pluto
(noun) a cartoon character created by Walt Disney
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
pluto (third-person singular simple present plutos, present participle plutoing, simple past and past participle plutoed)
(neologism) To demote or devalue something.
Anagrams
• pluot, poult
Etymology
Proper noun
Pluto
(Greek god, Roman god) Greco-Roman god of the underworld.
(astronomy) Originally known as the ninth planet in the solar system but reclassified in 2006 as a dwarf planet; the brightest and first known Kuiper belt object; represented by the symbol in astronomy and in astrology. [from 1930]
Synonyms: ♇ (symbol), Planet X (obsolete), (134340) Pluto, 134340 Pluto
Hypernym: dwarf planet
Anagrams
• pluot, poult
Source: Wiktionary
Plu"to, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Class. Myth.)
Definition: The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World. Pluto monkey (Zoöl.), a long- tailed African monkey (Cercopithecus pluto), having side whiskers. The general color is black, more or less grizzled; the frontal band is white.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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