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  • adjective Devoid of craters.

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crater +‎ -less

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Examples

  • There are six types of terrain ranging from heavily cratered plains to craterless grooved terrain that is similar to the sulci of Ganymede.

    Archive 2007-11-01 James Killus 2007

  • There are six types of terrain ranging from heavily cratered plains to craterless grooved terrain that is similar to the sulci of Ganymede.

    Albedo James Killus 2007

  • Not improbably, Eratosthenes once formed the volcanic vent for the stupendous forces that elevated the comparatively craterless peaks of these great mountains.

    The Story of the Heavens 1876

  • In the blankness of that space, smack-dab in the bomb's craterless crater, what is it I feel?

    VQR 2010

  • a certain degree of basaltic fluidity; others, which have been expanded into vast craterless domes, appear to have been only in a softened condition at the time of their elevation.

    COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

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