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INFERIOR PLANET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the planets whose orbit lies inside the earth's orbit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("inferior 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)
Instance hyponyms:
Mercury (the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun)
Venus (the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early 'morning star' or an 'evening star')
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