trans-Martian

adjective

Lying beyond the orbit of the planet Mars.

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Meanings

adjectivetrans-Martian (not comparable)
  1. not comparableastronomyLying beyond the orbit of the planet Mars.

    Then, less than a year before the discovery of Neptune, a fifth trans-Martian object and the twelfth planet, Astraea, had been found.

    2009 [2007], David A. Weintraub, Is Pluto a Planet?: A Historical Journey through the Solar System, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 115

Origin

From trans- + Martian.

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Chicago

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