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protovenus

protovenus is the alternative form of proto-Venus.

Meaning of proto-Venus

Proper noun

proto-Venus

  1. The planet Venus at an early stage.

Proper noun capitalized: protoVenus

protoVenus

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of proto-Venus
    • If Mercury has once been a satellit of Venus, the falling wind could have swept away so much of protoVenus that it lost gravitational control, and Mercury became a planet.1981, Fire of Life: The Smithsonian Book of the Sun, page 70
    • The major angular momentum was initially in the orbiting of the massive inner planets: protoMercury, protoVenus, and protoEarth.2012, Robert J. Tuttle, The Fourth Source: Effects of Natural Nuclear Reactors, page 101

Questions about protovenus

What is protovenus the alternative form of?
Protovenus is the alternative form of proto-Venus.
What part of speech is protovenus?
Protovenus is a proper noun.

Words near protovenus in the dictionary

  1. prototyrant
  2. prototyrants
  3. protouranus
  4. protourism
  5. protovascular
  6. protovenus
  7. protoveratrine
  8. protoveratrines
  9. protoverine
  10. protovertebra
  11. protovertebrae

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Adapted from Wiktionary: protovenus (page history and authors); protoVenus (page history and authors); proto-Venus (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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