Crossword-Solution: NEPTUNIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Neptunian | a. | Of or pertaining to the ocean or sea. |
| Neptunian | a. | Formed by water or aqueous solution; as, Neptunian rocks. |
| Neptunian | n. | Alt. of Neptunist |
We have 5 clues for the answer “NEPTUNIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Of the third largest planet. | 1 answer |
| PRODUCED by water action (geol.) | 1 answer |
| WATER, formed by agency of | 1 answer |
| AQUEOUS origin of certain rock, person who maintains the (geol.) | 2 answers |
| PERSON maintaining aqueous origin of certain rock (geol.) | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
LASROD
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with NEPTUNIAN (5)
And purple dye Of shell-fish so uniteth with the wool's Body alone that it cannot be ta'en Away forever--nay, though thou gavest toil To restore the same with the Neptunian flood, Nay, though all ocean willed to wash it out With all its waves.
Stimulated by this success, Leverrier calculated an orbit for an interior planet from perturbations of Mercury, but though prematurely christened Vulcan, this hypothetical nursling of the sun still haunts the realm of the undiscovered, along with certain equally hypothetical trans-Neptunian planets whose existence has been suggested by "residual perturbations" of Uranus, and by the movements of comets.
This highly satisfactory conclusion was an orthodox belief of celestial mechanics until 1853, when Professor Adams of Neptunian fame, with whom complex analyses were a pastime, reviewed Laplace's calculation, and discovered an error which, when corrected, left about half the moon's acceleration unaccounted for.
But to admit the "Plutonic" origin of such widespread formations was practically to abandon the Neptunian hypothesis.
During his martial and neptunian life he had loved crowds of women, red, black, yellow, and white, and some of them had been very beautiful.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1950).