cometary
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8.1
- adjective
- /ˈkɒmɪtəri/
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cometario
- Six percent of the cometary body was destroyed. "Will we be able to make our repairs?"
- cometary impact
- cometary observations
- cometary nucleus
But there was no cometary tail around Wamua.
- But there was no cometary tail around Wamua.
Examples
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The shadowed, frigid environment at the bottom of Aitken Crater might preserve cometary ice in that event.
Fiction book (1998) -
But there was no cometary tail around Wamua.
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And that would be primarily A cometary mass that's mostly ice, right?
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Thus, it would seem that there are cometary bodies in Beta Pictoris.
Academic text (1992) -
Ultimately, a thorough search for life on comets will require a sample of cometary surface material returned to Earth.
Academic text (1996) -
Prior to the Renaissance, European cometary observations were haphazard.
Academic text (1996) -
Finding a clear chiral signature in cometary organics would be evidence of a biological origin.
Academic text (1996) -
Fortunately, there is another source of cometary data: the observational records in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean histories.
Academic text (1996) -
The predominance of water-group ions supports Whipple's dirty-snowball model of cometary nuclei.
Academic text (1992) -
The cometary body left a bright trail as it passed close to Earth.
Synonyms
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6.8
A thing that has a bright head and a long glowing tail of light
It has the shape or bright tail of a comet
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cometary comes from the word comet, which goes back to the Greek komētēs from komē meaning 'hair' or 'long-haired' because people saw comets with long, hair-like tails. So cometary means 'relating to or like a comet', reminding us of a comet's long tail.