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mons
/mɒnz/
name 3noun 3
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4ADJ.
inactive, northern, over, solar
VERB + MONS
called, top
MONS + NOUN
delta, hadley, labia, minora, mker, pubis, r, region
PREP.
after
Definitions
name
1
A city, the capital of the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
name
1
A diminutive of the female given name Monica.
2
A diminutive of the male given name Montgomery.
noun
1
One of the fleshy areas at the base of the fingers; a mount.
2
Ellipsis of mons pubis.
Hesitantly, she used one finger to stroke the very top of the mons, surprised at its fatty, downy fullness — unfamiliar, despite a life of touching herself.
3
An extraterrestrial mountain or volcano.
Olympus Mons
Maxwell Montes
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Hesitantly, she used one finger to stroke the very top of the mons, surprised at its fatty, downy fullness — unfamiliar, despite a life of touching herself.
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Olympus Mons
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Maxwell Montes
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Mars has some of the largest volcanoes in the solar system; Olympus Mons is over 600 kilometers wide and 26 kilometers high!
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The Moon's Mons Hadley Delta is 15,000 feet tall, and makes up part of the rim of a deep crater from an asteroid impact billions of years ago.
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Olympus Mons, an inactive volcano on Mars, spreads over an area as large as the state of Arizona.
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