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vulcanoid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
vul-canoid
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

noun

An asteroid whose orbit is wholly within the orbit of Mercury.

Informal

adj

Of or pertaining to a vulcanoid.

noun

Alternative form of vulcanoid

Etymology

From Vulcan + -oid, from the hypothetical planet Vulcan, erroneously believed to exist within the orbit of Mercury.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

vulcanoids (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

Vulcanoid

Questions

What does vulcanoid mean?
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
Where does vulcanoid come from?
From Vulcan + -oid, from the hypothetical planet Vulcan, erroneously believed to exist within the orbit of Mercury.

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