inferior planet
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1. any of the planets whose orbit lies inside the earth's orbit (noun.object)
| hypernym | : | major planet, planet, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | mercury, |
| definition | : | the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | venus, |
| definition | : | 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' (noun.object) |
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