Word Meanings - METEOROIDAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a meteoroid or to meteoroids.

PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
METEOROIDAL
Of or pertaining to a meteoroid or to meteoroids.
METEOROID
A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor. These bodies before they come into the air, I call meteoroids. H. A. Newton.
APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach