gas giant

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English

Noun

gas giant (plural gas giants)

1. A large planet composed mostly of gaseous hydrogen and helium, along with methane and ammonia; possibly with a solid core.

Synonyms

• Jovian planet
• gas giant planet

Hypernyms

• giant planet

Hyponyms

• Jupiter
• Saturn

Related terms

• ice giant

Coordinate terms

• terrestrial planet
  • silicate planet / silicon planet
  • carbide planet / carbon planet
• major planet

See also

• dwarf planet
• minor planet
• Neptune (ice giant)
• Uranus (ice giant)

Translations

large planet of gas

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氣態巨行星 (cmn), 气态巨行星 (cmn) (qìtài jùxíngxīng)

• Esperanto: gasogiganto (eo)
• Finnish: kaasujättiläinen (fi)
• French: géante gazeuse (fr) f
• German: Gasriese (de) m, Gasplanet (de) m

• Japanese: 巨大ガス惑星 (ja) (kyodai gasu wakusei)
• Russian: газовый гигант (ru) (gázovyj gigánt) m, газовая планета (ru) (gázovaja planéta) f
• Spanish: gigante gaseoso (es) m
• Swahili: pandikizi la gesi (sw)