Skip to main content

neptunian

/nep-too-nee-uhn, -tyoo-/US // nɛpˈtu ni ən, -ˈtyu- //UK // (nɛpˈtjuːnɪən) //

海王星人,海王星,海王星的,海王星系

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to Neptune or the sea.
    • : pertaining to the planet Neptune.
    • : Geology. formed by the action of water.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The densities jump up for the next to planets, a small hop to a Neptunian density and a big leap up to nearly Martian density.

  • Though the account is very interesting, I do not perceive its exact bearing on the Neptunian and Plutonian hypotheses.

  • In six Neptunian months a forest of graceful larches would spring up to a height of seventy or eighty feet.

  • But to admit the "Plutonic" origin of such widespread formations was practically to abandon the Neptunian hypothesis.

  • An instance of this tendency, drawn from physical science, is supplied in the Neptunian geology of Werter.

  • The Neptunian leader began to gesture again, and conveyed to Burl that they wanted to attack as soon as possible.