తోకచుక్క

Telugu

తోకచుక్క.

Etymology

తోక (tōka, “tail”) +‎ చుక్క (cukka, “star”)

Noun

తోకచుక్క • (tōkacukka) n (plural తోకచుక్కలు)

(astronomy) A comet: a celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in an orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind.

References

"తోక" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 563

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