Word Meanings - PLANETOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.

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• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• PLANETED
  Belonging to planets. Young.
• PLANETOIDAL
  Pertaining to a planetoid.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• PLANET
  A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system. Note: The term planet was first used
• PLANETARIUM
  An orrery. See Orrery.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• ASTEROIDAL
  Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• PLANETOID
  A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.
• PLANETIC; PLANETICAL
  Of or pertaining to planets. Sir T. Browne.
• ASTEROID
  A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.
• PLANETARY
  Under the dominion or influence of a planet. "Skilled in the planetary hours." Drayton. 4. Caused by planets. "A planetary plague." Shak. 5. Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering. "Erratical and planetary life."
• PLANET-STRICKEN; PLANET-STRUCK
  Affected by the influence of planets; blasted. Milton. Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• INTERPLANETARY
  Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces. Boyle.
• NONRESEMBLANCE
  Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.