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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of the planets Mercury or Venus, whose orbits lie between Earth and the sun.
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- noun A planet that
orbits theSun within the orbit of theEarth , and thus does not showretrograde motion when viewed from Earth
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- noun any of the planets whose orbit lies inside the earth's orbit
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