ice giant

Definitions

1. 1

   A frost giant.

   • The drops became living by the power of him who had sent the wind ; and from them sprang Ymir, the ice-giant.
   • The three sons of Borr, Othin, Wili, and We, grandsons of Buri, the first man, slay Ymir, the father of the Hrimthursar or Ice giants, and his body serves them for the construction of the world.
2. 2

   A giant planet composed mostly of astronomical ices (condensed forms of volatile…

   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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