Word.ws English Dictionary

circummartian

circummartian adjective: that surrounds or circles the planet Mars.

Adjective

circummartian (not comparable)

  1. That surrounds or circles the planet Mars.
    • Soter (1971) first suggested that two tiny martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, should act as sources of dust for the circummartian space. The proposed mechanism of dust ejection from the satellite surfaces is their continuous hypervelocity bombardment by interplanetary micrometeoroids.2006 August, Alexander V. Krivov, Artem G. Feofilov, Valeri V. Dikarev, “Search for the putative dust belts of Mars: The late 2007 opportunity”, in Planetary and Space Science, volume 54, numbers...

Forms of circummartian

alternative formcircum-Martian

Origin of circummartian

From circum- + Martian.

Questions about circummartian

What does circummartian mean?
Circummartian means that surrounds or circles the planet Mars.
What part of speech is circummartian?
Circummartian is an adjective.

Words near circummartian in the dictionary

  1. circumlucid
  2. circumlunar
  3. circummandibular
  4. circummarginal
  5. circummarginate
  6. circummartian
  7. circummaxillary
  8. circummediterranean
  9. circummedullary
  10. circummeridian
  11. circummultiple

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: circummartian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “circummartian.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/circummartian. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.