ESTRATERRESTRIAL BODY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does estraterrestrial body mean? 

• ESTRATERRESTRIAL BODY (noun)
  The noun ESTRATERRESTRIAL BODY has 1 sense:

1. a natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere

  Familiarity information: ESTRATERRESTRIAL BODY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESTRATERRESTRIAL BODY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

estraterrestrial body; extraterrestrial object

Hypernyms ("estraterrestrial body" is a kind of...):

natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "estraterrestrial body"):

comet ((astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit)

meteor; meteoroid ((astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere)

Holonyms ("estraterrestrial body" is a part of...):

cosmos; creation; existence; macrocosm; universe; world (everything that exists anywhere)