Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging to or like a crater.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, a
crater .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He dangled me in front of his massive face, a craterous expanse of white skin, eyebrows like forests, his nose a mountain.
In This Way I Was Saved Brian DeLeeuw 2009
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Her world had been manufactured from a craterous moon.
365 tomorrows » 2006 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006
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Pushing through the dust cloud above the surface to hug the craterous landscape, his squadron chased their elusive quarry through canyons and across wide open plains to the mountains.
365 tomorrows » I Pledge My Life : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006
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Pushing through the dust cloud above the surface to hug the craterous landscape, his squadron chased their elusive quarry through canyons and across wide open plains to the mountains.
365 tomorrows » 2006 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006
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The moon was already aloft, its craterous yin-yang hanging in the premature daylit night.
The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007
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Or to make the analogy simple, it is like a seemingly harmless comet that turned out to be a craterous meteor on earth.
The Citizen On Mars 2009
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The cartoon function enables me to hide the chin hairs, the crow's feet, the craterous pores, and that weird thing growing on my eyelid.
Blogs Are Stupid 2008
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