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pre-stellar

pre-stellar is the alternative form of prestellar.

Meaning of prestellar

Adjective

prestellar (not comparable)

  1. Describing the matter and conditions involved in the formation of a star
    • The first flex of the membrane, leading to the clench, begins at the extreme interior margins of Path Terrulian in the 78th Thema, a cold, pre-stellar dust cloud fringed with cooling, iron-hearted stars and vast numbers of stony and icy planets and asteroids.2013 March 19, Greg Bear, String 25, in Halo: Silentium (Forerunner Saga; 3), New York: Tor, →ISBN, page 212

Questions about pre-stellar

What is pre-stellar the alternative form of?
Pre-stellar is the alternative form of prestellar.

Words near pre-stellar in the dictionary

  1. pre-shipment
  2. pre-slash
  3. pre-Socratic
  4. pre-Socratics
  5. pre-Soviet
  6. pre-stellar
  7. pre-stopped
  8. pre-stopping
  9. pre-stressed
  10. pre-studied
  11. pre-studies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-stellar (page history and authors); prestellar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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