Uranus

  1. Proper noun.  (Greek god) The god of the sky and heavens, son and husband to Gaia, with whom he fathered the Titans and the Cyclops.
  2. Proper noun.  The seventh planet in our solar system, with twenty-seven known moons, discovered in 1781 by Sir William Herschel.

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