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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the four gas giant planets in the solar system, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, which have very large masses and are farther from the sun than the terrestrial planets.
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- noun Either of the four
gas giant planets in theSolar System :Jupiter ,Uranus ,Saturn , orNeptune .
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- noun any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter)
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