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  • adjective Without planets.

Etymologies

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planet +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Turning the planetless blue sun into a nova had been a diversionary manoeuvre.

    Good Night, Mrs. Calabash 2010

  • It was a little type-K8 star, not quite small enough to qualify as a dwarf, orange-red, and planetless.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • It was a little type-K8 star, not quite small enough to qualify as a dwarf, orange-red, and planetless.

    RIHANNSU #3: SWORDHUNT Diane Duane 2000

  • It was a little type-K8 star, not quite small enough to qualify as a dwarf, orange-red, and planetless.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • The Starfarers were permanently planetless space travelers, their ship serving them as world, country, state, city, and family home all rolled into one.

    Acorna's World McCaffrey, Anne 2000

  • It was a little type-K8 star, not quite small enough to qualify as a dwarf, orange-red, and planetless.

    RIHANNSU #3: SWORDHUNT Diane Duane 2000

  • It was a little type-K8 star, not quite small enough to qualify as a dwarf, orange-red, and planetless.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • It was a little type-K8 star, not quite small enough to qualify as a dwarf, orange-red, and planetless.

    RIHANNSU #3: SWORDHUNT Diane Duane 2000

  • Why should beings with manlike biological requirements go from a dim red dwarf star to a planetless blue giant to a dying Cepheid variable?

    Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966

  • NOW: Vega in Lyra, an AO star twenty-six light years from earth, burning bluer than Rigel, planetless, but encircled by swarms of blazing comets whose gaseous tails scintillated across the blue-black firmament.

    The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956

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