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spiral nebulae

spiral nebulae is the plural of spiral nebula.

Meaning of spiral nebula

Noun

spiral nebula (plural spiral nebulas or spiral nebulae)

  1. a spiral-shaped nebula
  2. (obsolete) a spiral-shaped white nebula; these were generally determined to be spiral galaxies in the 20th century

Questions about spiral nebulae

What is spiral nebulae the plural of?
Spiral nebulae is the plural of spiral nebula.

Words near spiral nebulae in the dictionary

  1. spiral ganglia
  2. spiral ganglion
  3. spiral ginger
  4. spiral gingers
  5. spiral nebula
  6. spiral nebulae
  7. spiral nebulas
  8. spiral of Archimedes
  9. spiral out
  10. spiral pass
  11. spiral passes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spiral nebulae (page history and authors); spiral nebula (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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