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# cometary

«cometary» in Mova's school dictionary: **To do with comets, the icy bodies that travel around the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (cometary)

### meaning for a pupil

(science) To do with comets, the icy bodies that travel around the Sun and grow glowing tails when they come near it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cometary/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In space lessons it describes comets' dust, tails, orbits and ice — «cometary dust», «cometary orbit». Meteor showers happen when the Earth passes through cometary dust. It tells the reader the subject is comets.

### examples

- Meteor showers come from cometary dust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cometary/#x1)
- The probe studied cometary ice up close. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cometary/#x2)
- A cometary orbit can be very long and stretched. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cometary/#x3)
- Scientists think cometary water may have reached the young Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cometary/#x4)
- The telescope showed a faint cometary tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cometary/#x5)
- Halley's Comet has a cometary orbit of about 76 years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cometary/#x6)

### note

Adjective only, rare. Say «KOM-uh-tuh-ree». From «comet». Don't mix comets (icy, with tails) with asteroids (rocky) or meteors (streaks of light in the sky).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cometary» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cometary/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.