Definitions
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- adjective astronomy Describing bodies smaller than a
planet - adjective astronomy Describing the point on the surface of a
star directly underneath a close planet
Etymologies
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Examples
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Otherwise, their voices are lost on populations of speakers whose languages are, at least for now, subplanetary.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Otherwise, their voices are lost on populations of speakers whose languages are, at least for now, subplanetary.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Dark stars wander unseen among a million subplanetary oddments of iron, slag and ice: the so-called "starments."
Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973
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"And the number of planetary confederacies, subplanetary governments, industrial, financial and commercial combines, assorted power groups, etc. and so on, is something I'd hate to have to calculate."
Legacy James H. Schmitz 1946
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If everything is possible, then why not a hell, a purgatory, a heaven, or my subplanetary spaces, -- and
Without Dogma Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881
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Equality of respect for planetary and subplanetary dignity should be humankind's common aspirations, notwithstanding planetary differences in mass no matter how big or small.
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