stellular

[ stel-yuh-ler ]

adjective

1. having the form of a small star or small stars.
2. spotted with stars.

stellular

/ ˈstɛljʊlə /

adjective

1. displaying or abounding in small stars

   a stellular pattern

2. resembling a little star or little stars

Derived Forms

• ˈstellularly, adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of stellular¹

1790–1800; < Late Latin stellul ( a ) ( stell ( a ) star + -ula -ule ) + -ar ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of stellular¹

C18: from Late Latin stellula, diminutive of Latin stella star

Example Sentences

They separated after a time, and only here and there an isolated stellular light illumined the snow, and conjured white mystic circles into the wide spaces of the darkness.

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Presently the lights were dying out like magic all along the encampments, as if some great cataclysm were among the stellular reflections, blotting them from the sphere of being.

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Upward, always upward, his eyes on that radiant stellular coronal, as it shone white and splendid in the snowy night.

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Stellate, Stellular, starry or star-like; where several similar parts spread out from a common centre, like a star.

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The breeze freshened, after the sun went down, . . . there were stars in the night besides those known to astronomers; the stellular fire-flies gemmed the black shadows with a fluctuating brilliancy; they circled in and out of the porch, and touched the leaves above Clarsie’s head with quivering points of light.

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