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protouranus

protouranus is the alternative form of proto-Uranus.

Meaning of proto-Uranus

Proper noun

proto-Uranus

  1. The planet Uranus at an early stage.

Proper noun capitalized: protoUranus

protoUranus

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of proto-Uranus
    • protoUranus and protoNeptune, orbiting outside the halo, will soon become unshielded as the disk evaporates from the outside in2001, AP Boss, GW Wetherill, N Haghighipour, “Rapid Formation of Ice Giant Planets”, in Icarus, https://arxiv.org
    • Even with so much territory to rule and gather tribute from, protoUranus and protoNeptune grew slowly compared with Jupiter and Saturn.2004, Mark Littmann, Planets Beyond: Discovering the Outer Solar System, page 253

Questions about protouranus

What is protouranus the alternative form of?
Protouranus is the alternative form of proto-Uranus.
What part of speech is protouranus?
Protouranus is a proper noun.

Words near protouranus in the dictionary

  1. prototyping
  2. prototypographer
  3. prototypographers
  4. prototyrant
  5. prototyrants
  6. protouranus
  7. protourism
  8. protovascular
  9. protovenus
  10. protoveratrine
  11. protoveratrines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: protouranus (page history and authors); protoUranus (page history and authors); proto-Uranus (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.

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