Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name given by Shaler to those numerous ‘craters’ upon the moon which seem to have been produced by volcanic action, and resemble terrestrial craters except in being much larger.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun astronomy A member of the hypothetical population of small asteroids orbiting in the dynamically stable zone between 0.08 and 0.21 AU from the Sun
  • adjective astronomy Of or dealing with a vulcanoid

Etymologies

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From the hypothetical planet Vulcan, erroneously believed to exist within the orbit of Mercury

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Examples

  • However, with the exception of Rigelian fever, I know of no such organism that crosses human/vulcanoid bloodlines.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • However, with the exception of Rigelian fever, I know of no such organism that crosses human/vulcanoid bloodlines.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • Female vulcanoid, age approximately twenty Earth years.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • For our purposes here, you are vulcanoid, allegiance unspecified.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • The scanner indicated one vulcanoid reading, in the very same thicket from which the archers had attacked, as if Zetha were crouched and watching the hovercraft circle the now empty clearing with something like futility, wondering what she should do next.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • The scanner indicated one vulcanoid reading, in the very same thicket from which the archers had attacked, as if Zetha were crouched and watching the hovercraft circle the now empty clearing with something like futility, wondering what she should do next.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • For our purposes here, you are vulcanoid, allegiance unspecified.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • Female vulcanoid, age approximately twenty Earth years.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • “Theoretically I could compare normal specimens from any vulcanoid species with the disease specimens, but the match wouldn’t be exact,” Crusher said.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • “Theoretically I could compare normal specimens from any vulcanoid species with the disease specimens, but the match wouldn’t be exact,” Crusher said.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

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