HyperDic: estraterrestrial_body

English > 1 sense of the expression estraterrestrial body:
NOUNobjectestraterrestrial body, extraterrestrial objecta natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere
English > estraterrestrial body: 1 sense > noun 1, object
MeaningA natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere.
Synonymextraterrestrial object
Part ofuniverse, existence, creation, world, cosmos, macrocosmEverything that exists anywhere
Narrowercomet(astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
meteoroid, meteor(astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
Broadernatural objectAn object occurring naturally

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