starlike

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1. Resembling a star.

   Pluto's starlike appearance in the telescope was an early clue that it was not the large Planet X astronomers had hoped for.

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

   2007 September 16, Lawrence K. Altman, “4 Winners of Lasker Medical Prize”, in New York Times

2. Resembling or characteristic of a celebrity or leading actor.
3. geometryConvex; 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