extrasolar planet
noun
extrasolar planets
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pluralof extrasolar planet.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"The variability of extrasolar planets is just enormous," Muñoz said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025
Fomalhaut b was thought to be among the few extrasolar planets to have been imaged directly.
From Nature ● Apr. 20, 2020
Since 1995, when astronomers discovered the first planet orbiting a star other than our sun, more than thirty-five hundred extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, have come to light.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 24, 2016
Accordingly, papers are clustered around topics, such as extrasolar planets, dwarf stars, and superconductivity.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2013
The first extrasolar planets, as they had been discovered, had been named from Norse mythology--Odin and Baldur and Thor, Uller and Freya, Bifrost and Asgard and Niflheim.
From Graveyard of Dreams by H. Beam Piper
