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ESTRATERRESTRIAL BODY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere
Synonyms:
estraterrestrial body; extraterrestrial object
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("estraterrestrial body" is a kind of...):
natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "estraterrestrial body"):
comet ((astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit)
meteor; meteoroid ((astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere)
Holonyms ("estraterrestrial body" is a part of...):
cosmos; creation; existence; macrocosm; universe; world (everything that exists anywhere)
