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Definition of Starlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a star. "They saw a starlike object in the sky"
Definition of Starlike
1. a. Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers.
Definition of Starlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a star, especially in shape ¹
2. Adjective. Resembling or characteristic of a celebrity or leading actor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Starlike
1. resembling a star [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Starlike
Literary usage of Starlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tears for the Little Ones: A Collection of Poems and Passages Inspired by edited by Helen Kendrick Johnson (1878)
"THOU bright and starlike spirit, That in my visions wild I see mid heaven's
seraphic host, — 0, canst thou be my child ? My grief is quenched in wonder, ..."
2. The Flowering Plants of Wilts: With Sketches of the Physical Geography and by Thomas Arthur Preston (1888)
"Petals starlike 7 floribundus. Petals contiguous 6 peltatus. Segments of submersed
leaves ... Petals contiguous ... ... 8 penicillatus. Petals starlike 5 ..."
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