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  • adjective Of or relating to Ganymede
  • noun science fiction An inhabitant of Ganymede (a moon of Jupiter).

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Examples

  • However, low-weight or no, you got tired dancing'since Ganymedean steps took advantage, soaring and bounding aloft'mirth bubbled like champagne and the girl you admired said yes, she was in a mood for Jupiter watching-

    The Unicorn Trade Anderson, Poul and Karen 1984

  • The most extraordinary feature of the Ganymedean landscape was the presence of meandering stripes, built up from scores of parallel furrows a few kilometers apart.

    2010 Odyssey Two Clarke, Arthur C. 1982

  • Heat was lost to Vacuum at a considerably lower rate than it would have been conducted away by Ganymedean rock, at two hundred or more degrees below the Fahrenheit zero.

    Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • An acceleration of one Ganymedean gravity provided weight for resting and adjustment.

    Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • Heat was lost to Vacuum at a con'siderably lower rate than it would have been conducted away by Ganymedean rock, at two hundred or more degrees below the Fahrenheit zero.

    Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • An acceleration of one Ganymedean gravity provided weight for resting and adjustment.

    Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • Ganymedean pioneers were holding a good safe Stars and Stripes.

    Security Poul William Anderson

  • She made him continue the bathing until she could detect not even the slightest trace of the sweet, but noxious fragrance of that peculiarly terrible form of Ganymedean life.

    Spacehounds of IPC 1927

  • "I check you to nineteen decimals," and the two were soon attacking the savory Ganymedean goulash which Nadia had put in the cooker many hours before.

    Spacehounds of IPC 1927

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