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NOUN (3)

1. a cartoon character created by Walt Disney;

2. (Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone;
[syn: Pluto, Hades, Aides, Aidoneus]

3. a small planet and the farthest known planet from the sun; it has the most elliptical orbit of all the planets;
- Example: "Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pluto \Plu"to\ (pl[=u]"t[-o]), pr. n. [L., fr. Gr. Plou`twn.] 1. (Class. Myth.) The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World. [1913 Webster] 2. The ninth planet of the Solar System, the smallest (5700 km radius) and most distant from the sun. The suggestion has been made that it more closely resembles a large close comet than a planet. Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.248, larger than that of any other planet; it varies from 4.44 to 7.37 billion km distance from the sun. [PJC] Pluto is an oddball among its eight sister planets. It's the smallest in both size and mass, and has the most elliptical orbit. It moves in a plane tilted markedly away from the other planets' orbits. Moreover, Pluto is the only planet made almost entirely of ice. --Ron Cohen (Science News, Feb. 27, 1999, p. 139) Pluto monkey (Zool.), a long-tailed African monkey (Cercopithecus pluto), having side whiskers. The general color is black, more or less grizzled; the frontal band is white. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Pluto n 1: a cartoon character created by Walt Disney 2: (Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone [syn: Pluto, Hades, Aides, Aidoneus] 3: a small planet and the farthest known planet from the sun; it has the most elliptical orbit of all the planets; "Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930"