pluto monkey

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pluto monkey - 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.
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     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.
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              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.
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