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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name for the planet now called Uranus, given by its discoverer, Sir William Herschel, in honor of George III., but not accepted by astronomers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Astron.) The planet Uranus, so named by its discoverer, Sir W. Herschel.
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