Telugu

తోకచుక్క.

Noun

తోకచుక్క • ‎(tōkacukka) (plural తోకచుక్కలు ‎(tōkacukkalu))

1. (astronomy) 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