transplanetary

[trans-plan-i-ter-ee]

adjective

1. farther from the sun than a given planet.

Word History and Origins

Origin of transplanetary¹

trans- + planetary

Example Sentences

They echoed, with a little less bombast, the tone of “Ambition,” the short film that ESA commissioned to spread the cometary gospel, in which a pair of scientist-magicians of the future, who are molding matter on a blasted heath, recall Rosetta as the birth of transplanetary humanity.

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