Jupiterian adj.
of or pertaining to the planet Jupiter or its inhabitants
Now rare.
Demonyms
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1907 N.Y. Times Magazine 25 Aug. 7/1
We have sighted no Jupiterian airship, although there is an impression among the officers that we have been under surveillance ever since we left Earth.
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1923
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Farnsworth Wright
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You thought it was glass, but it is made of Jupiterian steel.
Adventure in the Fourth Dimension in Weird Tales Oct. 70/1 -
1943
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We can picture a Jupiterian ship of a size comparable to our own ocean-going light freighters. Ibid The Jupiterian crew would smother to death for lack of air.
Ship of Jupiter in Amazing Stories Sept. 208/2 -
1952
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M. C. Pease
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The fleets of the Combine of Jupiterian Satellite States were staring them in the face.
Generals Help Themselves in Worlds of If Nov. 101/2 -
1993
When the weather is dry, the stones look light gray and are flecked with bird droppings. Wet, theyβre shiny and black, Nordic cousins of the Jupiterian sentinels in the film β2001β.
in N.Y. Times 14 June 11
Research requirements
antedating 1907
Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a 1948 cite from Thornecliffe Herrick's "The Lost World".Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1968 reprint of I. S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan's 1966 "Intelligent Life in the Universe".
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