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English noun: Neptune | |||
| 1. | Neptune (person) (Roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of Greek Poseidon | ||
| Instance hypernym | Roman deity | ||
| Domain category | Roman mythology | ||
| 2. | Neptune (object) a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants | ||
| Samples | The existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846. | ||
| Instance hypernym | gas giant, Jovian planet, outer planet, superior planet | ||
| Member meronym | solar system | ||
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