单词 | planet-making |
释义 | > as lemmasplanet-making planet-making adj. ΚΠ 1854 W. Whewell Plurality of Worlds x. 226 The planet-making powers which were efficacious to this distance from the sun, and which produced the great globe of the Earth, were, beyond this point, feebler; so that they could only give birth to smaller masses; to planetoids, to satellites, and to meteoric stones. 1892 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 24 32 We need to track the planet-making forces at their toil, to see with what sure laws and tireless industry they carve out continents into infinitely varied relief. 2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 July a1/2 Planet-making ingredients include silicon, iron and other elements heavier than hydrogen or helium. < as lemmas |
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