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Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers.

A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.

Pertaining to, coming from, or resembling, the stars; starry; starlike. Shines only with an astral luster. I. Taylor. Some astral forms I must invoke by prayer. Dryden. Astral lamp, an Argand lamp so constructed that no shadow is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped reservoir in which the oil is contained.…

genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows.

A suborder of corals including many reef-building species, having round, starlike calicles.

Any starlike meteor or phenomenon. [R.]

h firearms. -- Shooting iron, a firearm. [Slang, U.S.] -- Shooting star. (a) (Astron.) A starlike, luminous meteor, that, appearing suddenly, darts quickly across some portion of the sky, and then as suddenly disappears, leaving sometimes, for a few seconds, a luminous train, - - called also falling star. Shooting sta…

Round; spherical; starlike. [R.] "Hermia's sphery eyne." Shak.

ter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding of a air, presents a starlike appearance.

Starlike; having similar parts radiating from a common center; as, stellate flowers.

Marked with starlike spots of color.