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planet wheel | planet-stricken | planet-struck | planetal | planetarium | planetary | planetary gear | planetary house | planetary nebula | planeted | planetesimal

planetary

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Adjective, Noun
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plan=e=tar=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

planetarya. [Cf. L. planetarius an astrologer, F. planétaire planetary. See Planet.].
  •  Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Under the dominion or influence of a planet.  Drayton.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Caused by planets.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering.  Fuller.  [1913 Webster]
Planetary days, the days of the week as shared among the planets known to the ancients, each having its day. Hutton. -- Planetary nebula, a nebula exhibiting a uniform disk, like that of a planet.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

planetary, adj.
1 of or like planets (planetary influence).
2 terrestrial; mundane.
3 wandering; erratic.

Idiom
planetary nebula a ring-shaped nebula formed by an expanding shell of gas round a star.
Etymology
LL planetarius (as PLANET)

THESAURUS

planetary

Antaean, Cynthian, aberrant, aberrative, all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive, all-pervading, allover, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical, catholic, celestial, circuitous, circumplanetary, cislunar, colossal, cosmic, cosmopolitan, country-wide, cyclopean, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, ecumenic, ecumenical, elephantine, empyreal, empyrean, enormous, equinoctial, errant, erratic, excursive, extragalactic, galactic, gigantic, global, heaven-wide, heavenly, heliacal, immense, indirect, intercosmic, international, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar, jumbo, labyrinthine, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, mazy, meandering, meteoric, meteoritic, monumental, national, nebular, nebulose, nebulous, nondenominational, nonsectarian, out-of-the-way, planetal, planetarian, planetesimal, rambling, roving, semilunar, serpentine, shifting, sidereal, snaky, solar, sphery, star-spangled, star-studded, starry, stellar, stellary, stray, swerving, terrestrial, total, turning, twisting, undirected, universal, uranic, vagrant, veering, wandering, winding, world-wide, worldwide, zigzag, zodiacal

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