Word.ws English Dictionary

selenoid

selenoid adjective: crescent-shaped.

Adjective

selenoid (comparative more selenoid, superlative most selenoid)

  1. crescent-shaped

Noun

selenoid (plural selenoids)

  1. any satellite of the Earth's moon (none of which are known)

Forms of selenoid

Adjective
comparativemore selenoid
superlativemost selenoid
Noun
pluralselenoids

Origin of selenoid

From seleno- + -oid.

Questions about selenoid

What does selenoid mean?
Selenoid means crescent-shaped.
What part of speech is selenoid?
Selenoid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near selenoid in the dictionary

  1. selenographists
  2. selenographs
  3. selenography
  4. SELENOH
  5. SELENOI
  6. selenoid
  7. selenoids
  8. SELENOK
  9. selenoketone
  10. selenoketones
  11. selenol

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: selenoid (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: “selenoid.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/selenoid. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.