starlike

English

Etymology

star +‎ -like

Adjective

starlike (comparative more starlike, superlative most starlike)

1. Resembling a star, especially in shape.
   • 2007 September 16, Lawrence K. Altman, “4 Winners of Lasker Medical Prize”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     For example, long projections emerged from the cells and floated before they retracted, creating a starlike pattern.

2. Resembling or characteristic of a celebrity or leading actor.
3. (geometry) Convex; having the property that any line segment joining any mapped point to a specified point in the domain lies entirely in the domain.

   the growth theorem for holomorphic starlike mappings

Derived terms

• starlikeness

Anagrams

• larkiest, stalkier, tsarlike