EXTRATERRESTRIAL OBJECT

I. (noun)

Meaning:

A natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere

Synonyms:

estraterrestrial body; extraterrestrial object

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("extraterrestrial object" is a kind of...):

natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "extraterrestrial object"):

comet ((astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit)

meteor; meteoroid ((astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere)

Holonyms ("extraterrestrial object" is a part of...):