cometary

«cometary» in Mova's school dictionary: To do with comets, the icy bodies that travel around the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (cometary)

meaning for a pupil

(science) To do with comets, the icy bodies that travel around the Sun and grow glowing tails when they come near it. tree →

sense in the lessons

In space lessons it describes comets' dust, tails, orbits and ice — «cometary dust», «cometary orbit». Meteor showers happen when the Earth passes through cometary dust. It tells the reader the subject is comets.

examples

• Meteor showers come from cometary dust. tree →
• The probe studied cometary ice up close. tree →
• A cometary orbit can be very long and stretched. tree →
• Scientists think cometary water may have reached the young Earth. tree →
• The telescope showed a faint cometary tail. tree →
• Halley's Comet has a cometary orbit of about 76 years. tree →

note

Adjective only, rare. Say «KOM-uh-tuh-ree». From «comet». Don't mix comets (icy, with tails) with asteroids (rocky) or meteors (streaks of light in the sky).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cometary» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.