Word.ws English Dictionary

lenticular galaxies

lenticular galaxies is the plural of lenticular galaxy.

Meaning of lenticular galaxy

Noun

lenticular galaxy (plural lenticular galaxies)

  1. A galaxy that, like spiral galaxies, has a flat galactic disc, but which has lost most of its interstellar matter and therefore has no spirals; considered a transitional form between spirals and elliptical galaxies.
    Synonyms:
    S0, SA0

Questions about lenticular galaxies

What is lenticular galaxies the plural of?
Lenticular galaxies is the plural of lenticular galaxy.

Words near lenticular galaxies in the dictionary

  1. lenticular
  2. lenticular bracket
  3. lenticular brackets
  4. lenticular cloud
  5. lenticular clouds
  6. lenticular galaxies
  7. lenticular galaxy
  8. lenticular image
  9. lenticular images
  10. lenticular nucleus
  11. lenticular printing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lenticular galaxies (page history and authors); lenticular galaxy (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: “lenticular galaxies.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lenticular_galaxies. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.