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trans-Martian

trans-Martian adjective: lying beyond the orbit of the planet Mars.

Adjective

trans-Martian (not comparable)

  1. Lying beyond the orbit of the planet Mars.
    • Then, less than a year before the discovery of Neptune, a fifth trans-Martian object and the twelfth planet, Astraea, had been found.2009 [2007], David A. Weintraub, Is Pluto a Planet?: A Historical Journey through the Solar System, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 115

Origin of trans-Martian

From trans- + Martian.

Questions about trans-Martian

What does trans-Martian mean?
Trans-Martian means lying beyond the orbit of the planet Mars.
What part of speech is trans-Martian?
Trans-Martian is an adjective.

Words near trans-Martian in the dictionary

  1. trans-lunar injection
  2. trans-male
  3. trans-males
  4. trans-Mars injection
  5. trans-Mars injections
  6. trans-Martian
  7. trans-mat
  8. trans-mats
  9. trans-misogynist
  10. trans-misogynistic
  11. trans-misogynists

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