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

Other Word Forms

• stellularly 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

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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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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From the hill-side above a light cast its broken image among the ripples, as it shone for an instant through the bosky laurel, white, stellular, splendid—only a tallow dip suddenly placed in the window of a log-cabin, and as suddenly withdrawn.

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Not without a painful emotion of impending danger, as I watched the stellular reflections dancing in the rushing river, did I wander on in the wake of a group of pack-ponies, and took my turn in being assisted over the broken chasms by the muleteers.

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