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Planetoid   Listen
noun
Planetoid  n.  (Astron.) A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Planetoid" Quotes from Famous Books



... leatheroid, covered his body and limbs, even the backs of his hands, as well as his neck and scalp. Yet, as he had decided before, it was no great protection against violence. As clothing it was superfluous on this tropical planetoid. What then? ...
— The Devil's Asteroid • Manly Wade Wellman

... object sought was so far away that the small spy-ray sets of the Secret Service men, intended as they were for close-range work, were unable to make contact with the invisible planetoid for which they were seeking. In the captain's sanctum of the Chicago, the operative studied his plate for only a minute or two, then shut off his power and fell into a brown study, from which he ...
— Triplanetary • Edward Elmer Smith



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