Selenite
English
Etymology
Selene (“the Moon”) + -ite. From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē, “goddess of the Moon”).
Noun
Selenite (plural Selenites)
- (science fiction) An inhabitant of Luna, the moon of Terra.
- 1901, Herbert George Wells, “The Selenite's Face”, in The First Men in the Moon:
- My first impression was of some clumsy quadruped with lowered head. Then I perceived it was the slender pinched body and short and extremely attenuated bandy legs of a Selenite, with his head depressed between his shoulders.
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Translations
inhabitant of the Moon — see Lunarian
Adjective
Selenite
- (science fiction) Pertaining to the inhabitants of Luna (Lunarians/Selenites).
- a Selenite colony
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Noun
Selenite n