Crossword clues for martian
martian
- Being from another planet
- Sci-fi invader
- "War of the Worlds" invader
- "The War of the Worlds" invader
- "The War of the Worlds" foe
- Of Mars
- Certain alien
- Resident of the Red Planet
- Possible U.F.O. passenger
- Kind of ET
- Green man from the Red Planet
- "The War of the Worlds" baddie
- "The War of the Worlds" attacker
- Sci-fi enemy
- U.F.O. pilot, possibly
- Storied invader
- Imaginary people who live on the planet Mars
- Otherworldly one
- Walston on TV
- Mo. for a sci-fi alien?
- Bradbury adjective
- Sci-fi character
- Alien craft, one commandeered by humans
- From the Red Planet
- Bird swallowing a strange green creature?
- Bird eating a little green man?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Martian \Mar"tian\, prop. a. [L. Martius.] Of or pertaining to Mars, the Roman god of war, or to the planet bearing his name; martial.
Martian \Mar"tian\, prop. n.
An inhabitant of the planet Mars; -- fictional or
hypothetical.
--Du Maurier.
Note: In science fiction, it has often been postulated that there are intelligent creatures living on Mars, but no strong evidence of any form of life on Mars has been observed up to the end of 1998.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., marcien "of the planet Mars" (originally in reference to astrological influence), from Latin Martius "sacred to Mars; pertaining to the planet Mars," from Mars (genitive Martis). The noun meaning "an inhabitant of the planet Mars" is attested from 1883.
Wiktionary
a. (context astronomy English) (alternative case form of Martian lang=en nodot=yes), "of or pertaining to the planet Mars".
Wikipedia
A Martian is a native inhabitant of the planet Mars. Although the search for evidence of life on Mars continues, many science fiction writers have imagined what extraterrestrial life on Mars might be like. Some writers also use the word Martian to describe a human colonist on Mars.
As an adjective, Martian means of or pertaining to the planet Mars. A Martian is a hypothetical inhabitant of the planet Mars.
Martian, Martians, The Martian or The Martians may also refer to:
The Martians, also known as the Invaders, are the fictional race of extraterrestrials from the H.G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds. They are the main antagonists of the novel, and their efforts to exterminate the populace of England (and later the Earth) and claim the planet for themselves drive the plot and present challenges for the novel's human characters. They are notable for their use of extraterrestrial weaponry far in advance of that of mankind at the time of the invasion, 1898.
Usage examples of "martian".
Martian amoebic fever except to get away from Mars at the first opportunity.
Behind her, the Martian hung in mid-glide, staring blindly down like one of the angels in the Andric cathedral at Newpest.
The modern Martian now has separate antimorph glands, located near the adrenals.
Earth, and later, in hope of a new beginning, across the gulfs of the Martian astrogation charts to the world that would later become known as Latimer.
Martian debacle, built and hurled at the nearest of the habitable worlds indicated on the Martian astrogation charts with the bravado of a Molotov cocktail hurled at a tank.
I had to pull every string I knew, behind the scenes, to get the geniuses at JPL to send their two Viking landers to the Martian equivalents of Death Valley and the Atacama Desert in Chile.
There would be the Februarian man, the Martian man, the Augustan man, and so forth.
The fog appeared less menacing on the main road than it had in the unlit graveyard, though the high amber street-lights and the flashing Belisha beacons at the zebra crossing looked like the Martian machines out of War of the Worlds.
If the converter-ship stayed far out of the Belos, it might as well not leave its home port, for Earth radar would pick up the distant Martians, and send interceptors.
The Martians counted human lives in four installments, marked by biochemically mediated events.
The Marsgazelle had been a marvelous feat of bioengineering for its day, when an earlier generation of sportsmen had turned it loose to stock the Martian deserts.
And while within we fought out our dark, dim contest of whispers, snatched food and drink, and gripping hands and blows, without, in the pitiless sunlight of that terrible June, was the strange wonder, the unfamiliar routine of the Martians in the pit.
Each adult Martian female brings forth about thirteen eggs each year, and those which meet the size, weight, and specific gravity tests are hidden in the recesses of some subterranean vault where the temperature is too low for incubation.
He fired bursts around them, and around Miya, and nothing else seemed to be moving in the cageful of Martians.
I got a new hold of him as we staggered and plunged, roaring the while like the wild beasts we were, the teeth chattering in the Martian heads as they watched us, and then, exerting all my strength, lifted him fairly from his feet and with supreme effort swung him up, shoulder high, and with a mighty heave hurled him across the tables, flung that ambassador, whom no Martian dared look upon, crashing and sprawling through the gold and silver of the feast, whirled him round with such a splendid send that bench and trestle, tankards and flagons, chairs and cloths and candelabras all went down into thundering chaos with him, and the envoy only stayed when his sacred person came to harbour amongst the westral odds and ends, the soiled linen, and dirty platters of our wedding feast.