star-shaped
AmericanEtymology
Origin of star-shaped
First recorded in 1805–15
Example Sentences
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The blue Luma doesn’t appear during the main story of “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” but the star-shaped creature steals the mid-credits scene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 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
Think of the toddler's classic hammer-and-bench toy, with square, circular, triangular and star-shaped wooden pegs that can each only fit in the correspondingly shaped hole in the bench.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
His one eye was shut and the other was a star-shaped hole.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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