sun star

noun

any starfish of the genus Solaster, inhabiting cold and temperate waters off both U.S. coasts.

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First recorded in 1835–45

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For one project, he became part a team studying common sun stars in Sweden.

Clements wants to run new tests to see what levels of hunger and crowding density might affect urchin appetites for sun stars.

Each time, they placed a single sun star in the urchin tank.

Whilst my attention was concentrated on our planet, the Sun-star became eclipsed before my eyes.

Another relative is the Sun-star, which has twelve or fifteen rays, and often grows to a very large size.

Many spent endless hours at the long-range telescanners watching the sun star Wolf 359, seeing it come closer and closer.

He stared into the astrogation prism and sighted on the cold light of the sun star Wolf 359.

There is a central sun-star, around which many of the others revolve.

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