shell star

American  

noun

Astronomy.

1. a type of star showing bright emission lines superimposed on its normal absorption spectrum, presumably caused by a gaseous shell around the star.

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shell star British  

noun

1. astronomy a type of star, usually of spectral type B to F, surrounded by a gaseous shell

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Example Sentences

"Star shell, star shell," my French companion called excitedly.

From World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

And at that second, simultaneously, came the flare of a shell star and a shout of a man struck down, and I knew the voice—John Dudley.

From Joy in the Morning by Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman