Definition of Mercury
Nouns
(Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce; counterpart of Greek Hermes
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Roman deity
a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans
the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun
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inferior planet
any of the planets whose orbit lies inside the earth's orbit
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terrestrial planet
a planet having a compact rocky surface like the Earth's; the four innermost planets in the solar system
Vocabulary Lists for Mercury
- Aesculapius
- Apollo
- Ares
- Artemis
- Asclepius
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales - Beginning »(773 words)
Vocabulary words from The Canterbury Tales, from...
- Theseus
- narcotise
- citole
- drey
- girasol
Other Spellings
Words that contain Mercury
bichloride of mercury
dog mercury
dog's mercury
fulminate of mercury
fulminating mercury
herb mercury
herbs mercury
mercury
mercury barometer
mercury cell
mercury chloride
mercury-contaminated
mercury fulminate
mercury-in-glass clinical thermometer
mercury-in-glass thermometer
mercury poisoning
Mercury program
mercury thermometer
mercury-vapor lamp