1660–70; < Latin Plūtōni ( us ) (< Greek Ploutṓnios, derivative of Ploútōn Pluto ) + -an
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All the geographic diversity the New Horizons team is finding in the Plutonian system—in the surface features, the interiors, and the frigid atmospheres—is forcing them to work against intuitions powerfully shaped by familiar Earthly experience.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 15, 2015
The spacecraft also may see clouds and fog: Plutonian meteorology, driven by the planet's all-natural global warming and cooling.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2014
The former hero in question is the Plutonian and in his path are his former allies, the Paradigm, who try to impede his quest for mayhem.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2011
Sandwiched between an introduction and a conclusion are four sections: Venusian Spring, Martian Summer, Terrestrial Autumn and Plutonian Winter.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2011
“The man we have to thank for the Jovian- Plutonian gravitational effect.”
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
Relatively to its proportions, the satellite is much more mountainous than the planet, and the plutonian giants are much more numerous there than here.
From Astronomy for Amateurs by Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice)
Mr. Statis Ticks picked up a piece of this plutonian slag and examined it attentively.
From A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Ward, Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson)
So the fire flourished, and the plutonian rock-mass of the tor arose, the centre of a scene itself plutonian.
From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden
Emerging from the shadow of the manchineel-trees, you may follow the road up, up, up, under beetling cliffs of plutonian rock that seem about to topple down upon the path-way.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
And then will come, plutonian clad and slim, Upon a stallion vast intensely black, Semial, Satan's lurid minister, To hail you and inform you and assure.—
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius
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