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Umbriel

Pronunciation: /ˈʌmbrɪəl/

Astronomy
Definition of Umbriel
  • a satellite of Uranus, the thirteenth closest to the planet, discovered in 1851 (diameter 1,190 km).

Origin:

named after a sprite in The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope

Umbriel in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Umbriel in the US English dictionary
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