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prestellar

prestellar adjective: describing the matter and conditions involved in the formation of a star.

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

Forms of prestellar

alternative formpre-stellar

Origin of prestellar

From pre- + stellar.

Questions about prestellar

What does prestellar mean?
Prestellar means describing the matter and conditions involved in the formation of a star.
What part of speech is prestellar?
Prestellar is an adjective.

Words near prestellar in the dictionary

  1. Prestedge
  2. Prestedges
  3. presteel
  4. Presteigne
  5. Prestel
  6. prestellar
  7. prestenotic
  8. prester
  9. Prester John
  10. presteres
  11. presterilize

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