Ice giant
noun
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Noun
- 1 A frost giant. Norse
"The drops became living by the power of him who had sent the wind ; and from them sprang Ymir, the ice-giant."
- 2 A giant planet composed mostly of astronomical ices (condensed forms of volatile compounds) including water, methane, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur, and smaller than a gas giant. (e.g. Neptune and Uranus)
"The fifth planet was an unknown, an ice giant in a drunken skewed orbit that took it from just inside the Jovian's orbit almost out to the sixth planet's."
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More examples"The drops became living by the power of him who had sent the wind ; and from them sprang Ymir, the ice-giant."