giant star

English

Noun

giant star (plural giant stars)

2. (astronomy) A star that has stopped fusing hydrogen in its core, and as a result has grown much larger and brighter; it is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature.

   Synonym: giant

   Hypernyms: star < celestial body

   Hyponyms: red giant, blue giant

   Coordinate terms: dwarf star, dwarf, subgiant, bright giant, supergiant, hypergiant

Translations

star that has stopped fusing hydrogen

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巨星 (zh) (jùxīng)

• Finnish: jättiläistähti
• French: étoile géante
• Galician: estrela xigante (gl) f
• German: Riesenstern (de) m
• Hindi: दानव तारा m (dānav tārā)
• Hungarian: óriáscsillag (hu)
• Spanish: estrella gigante f
• Welsh: seren gawr f

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