proplyd
/ˈprəʊplɪd/Astronomy
noun
An opaque disc of gas and dust orbiting a young star, thought to be an embryonic planetary system; a protoplanetary disc.
Origin
1990s; earliest use found in United Press International Newswire. From pro- + -pl- + -y + d-.
- Stralsund
- stramash
- stramonium
- strand
- stranded
- strandlooper
- strandloper
- strandwolf
- strange
- strange attractor
- strange-looking
- strangely
- strangeness
- strange particle
- stranger
- stranger danger
- strange to say (or literary tell)
- strangle
- stranglehold
- strangler
- strangles
- strangulate
- strangulation
- strangurious
- strangury