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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Herschel \Her"schel\, noun (Astron.) See {Uranus}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Uranus \U"ra*nus\ (-n[u^]s), noun [L. Uranus, Gr. O'yrano's Uranus, o'yrano's heaven, sky. Cf. {Uranium}.]
1. (Gr. Myth.) The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans.
2. (Astron.) One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years.
Note: This planet has also been called {Herschel}, from Sir William Herschel, who discovered it in 1781, and who named it {Georgium Sidus}, in honor of George III., then King of England.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Herschel
noun
1: English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871) [syn: {John Herschel}, {Sir John Herschel}, {Sir John Frederick William Herschel}]
2: English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822) [syn: {William Herschel}, {Sir William Herschel}, {Sir Frederick William Herschel}]
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