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blue stragglers

blue stragglers is the plural of blue straggler.

Meaning of blue straggler

Noun

blue straggler (plural blue stragglers)

  1. An unusually hot and blue star in globular clusters.
    • This boosted the mass of the companion, turning it into a blue straggler, while reducing the companion to a sub-dwarf B star.2015, David Stevenson, The Complex Lives of Star Clusters, Springer, →ISBN, page 168

Questions about blue stragglers

What is blue stragglers the plural of?
Blue stragglers is the plural of blue straggler.

Words near blue stragglers in the dictionary

  1. blue starter
  2. blue starters
  3. blue state
  4. blue states
  5. blue straggler
  6. blue stragglers
  7. blue streak
  8. Blue Sucker
  9. Blue Suckers
  10. blue suit
  11. blue suits

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