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asteroid

About 0.58 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A naturally occurring solid object, which is smaller than a planet and a dwarf planet, larger than a meteoroid and not a comet, that orbits a star and often has an irregular shape.
  2. noun In the Solar System, such a body that orbits within the orbit of Jupiter.
  3. noun Any member of the taxonomic class Asteroidea; a starfish.

Similar words

angulate angular minor planet planetoid star-shaped hyalitis meteor planet ceres vesta

Often followed by

belt or impact and is that was impacts to

Word family

asteroidal asteroids

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