jupiter \ju"piter\, n. l., fr. jovis pater. see jove.
   1913 webster
   1. rom. myth. the supreme deity, king of gods and men, and
      reputed to be the son of saturn and rhea; jove. he
      corresponds to the greek zeus.
      1913 webster

   2. astron. one of the planets, being the fifth from the
      sun, the brightest except venus, and the largest of them
      all, its mean radius being about 43,345 miles 69,758
      kilometers, almost exactly one-tenth that of the sun. it
      revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance
      of 5.2025 from the sun 778,140,000 km, the earth's mean
      distance the astronomical unit being taken as unity. it
      has a mass of 1.901 x 10^27 kg, about one-thousandth
      that of the sun, and more than the remainder of the
      planets combined. it has an average solar day equal to
      9.842 earth hours. the rapid revolution causes a
      noticeable flattening at the poles; the diameter at the
      equator is 71,370 km, and at the poles 66,644 km. --hcp61
      1913 webster +pjc

   jupiter's beard. bot.
      a a south european herb, with cymes of small red
          blossoms centranthus ruber.
      b the houseleek sempervivum tectorum; -- so called
          from its massive inflorescence, like the sculptured
          beard of jove. --prior.
      c the cloverlike anthyllis barba-jovis.

   jupiter's staff bot., the common mullein; -- so called
      from its long, rigid spike of yellow blossoms. jupon
see also:
jove 27 jupiter's beard centranthus ruber sempervivum tectorum anthyllis barba-jovis 
jupiter's staff 

centranthus ruber
     n : european herb with small fragrant crimson or white spurred
         flowers syn: red valerian, french honeysuckle
see also:
red valerian french honeysuckle