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"(astronomy, sciences, neologism) A theoretical planetary body that formed as a moon orbiting a planet, but which has become tidally detached, so that it enters orbit about its star, separated from its parent planet."
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"english": "a moon of a moon",
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"roman": "purūnetto",
"sense": "tidally-detached moon",
"word": "プルーネット"
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