star-shaped
AmericanEtymology
Origin of star-shaped
First recorded in 1805–15
Example Sentences
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In addition to Yoshi, theaters are selling $45 star-shaped Luma buckets, which light up and come in several colors.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
The team traced these changes to astrocytes, star-shaped cells in the brain that support neurons.
From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2026
She's studying the role of star-shaped immune cells, called astrocytes, in Alzheimer's.
From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025
At Socrates, examples include “A Sea In-MOTION,” a star-shaped assemblage of bamboo fences by the Pioneers Go East Collective; and Natalia Nakazawa’s part-buckyball, part-yurt “Dome Cartographies.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
It sat in a star-shaped holder next to a jigsaw puzzle in progress, though I couldn’t tell what picture it would make.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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