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NEPTUNIANa.

[the fabled deity of the ocean.]

1. Pertaining to the ocean or sea.

2. Formed by water or aqueous solution; as Neptunian rocks.

NEPTUNIANn.

One who adopts the theory that the whole earth was once covered with water, or rather that the substances of the globe were formed from aqueous solution; opposed to the Plutonic theory.