[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/cometary/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [C](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/c/) / cometary

# cometary

adjective (cometary)

«cometary» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cometary» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cometary/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cometary» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cometary.html) on Mova free.