Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Pluto"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pluto \Plu"to\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Class. Myth.)
The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune;
the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World.
{Pluto monkey} (Zo["o]l.), a long-tailed African monkey
({Cercopithecus pluto}), having side whiskers. The general
color is black, more or less grizzled; the frontal band is
white.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Pluto
n 1: a cartoon character created by Walt Disney [syn: {Pluto}]
2: (Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient
mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone [syn:
{Pluto}, {Hades}, {Aides}, {Aidoneus}]
3: the second smallest planet and the farthest known from the
sun; has the most elliptical orbit of all the planets
[syn: {Pluto}]
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