plural of gala dress

A woman's formal dress for special occasions.

(now rare) The Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth.

To furnish with galaxies. / (archaic) To gather together into a luminous whole.

(humorous) A notional space monster invoked to explain the high failure rate of probes sent to Mars.

(astronomy) A galaxy where a significant fraction of the energy output is not emitted by the normal components of a galaxy.

(medicine) Of or pertaining to milk, or the secretion of milk. / Relating to a galaxy. / (astronomy, specifically, sometimes capitalized) Relating to the Milky Way galaxy.

(astronomy, dated) the Milky Way Galaxy, from before it was realized that the Milky Way was not the only "galaxy"

Great Galactic Ghoul

(biochemistry) A monosaccharide found, along with lactose, in dairy products, and is synthesized by the body where it is found associated with glycolipids and glycoproteins.