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novalike

  • a word derived from nova.

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In the 1980s, Shara had predicted that novas, novalike systems and dwarf novas were the same stars in different stages of an eruption cycle.

From Washington Post Aug. 30, 2017

And the diffuse fury in him coalesced and burst into novalike flame.

From Alarm Clock by Dongen, H. R. van