moonmoon
nounUK /ˈmuːnmuːn/ · US /ˈmunmun/
Etymology moon + moon
- Sarah Laskow at Atlas Obscura explains that moonmoon is catching on because there’s something pleasing about “recursive places,” like islands within islands, volcanoes within volcanoes and rivers running through a sea.2018 October 11, Jason Daley, “If a Moon Has a Moon, Is Its Moon Called a Moonmoon?”, in Smithsonian:
- Hypernyms
- subsatellite
- Hyponyms
- tertiary planet