WordNet
adj. shaped like a star [syn: asteroid]
Usage examples of "star-shaped".
It was pinning a photograph that depicted two girls in bikinis standing in front of a star-shaped pool.
He turned his hand over then, and presented me with a small dark object clinging to the tip of his finger-Phillip Wylie's star-shaped black beauty mark.
The black sponge, bruised by the impact, had welled a liquid which had dissolved a hole in the leather, allowing the star-shaped dreams to spill out upon the sponge.
There are two of them - Santa Catarina, the star-shaped and small one low down on the headland on the north side, and Filippo, which is on the top of a big hill overlooking the whole port.
The star-shaped heads were heavy with seed-edible seed, he corrected himself, watching the tricorder readings change, similar enough to terrestrial wheat to make it worth trying to make flour from them.
Within the ice she could see defects: planes, threads and star-shaped knots, imperfections left by the freezing process.
There were also entrenchments at a mill near the head of Wormley Creek, and on the extreme right, beyond the ravine on the riverbank, was a large star-shaped fort known as the “Fusiliers’ Redoubt,” garrisoned by Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
In his left hand he gripped the drill, a simple hand tool shaped like a long chisel with a steel shank and a star-shaped cutting end.
It just fractured it and rolled off, leaving behind a star-shaped cicatrice that looked like it was made of powdered sugar.
Other sections showed the characteristic star-shaped craters and blast patterns of directed-charge nuclear warheads, or the blobby melted look of plasma bursts, or the long sword-slash mark of heavy lasers.
It could not compare with the touch symphonies that so entranced Tha-tha and kept him stretched out on the star-shaped body reader for hours—and that he had tried without success to explain to Bram.
He brushed by a gaunt, cadaverous, tristful man in a black raincoat with a star-shaped scar in his cheek and a glossy mutilated depression the size of an egg in one temple.
The skin around both of his sockets, the only part of his true skin that was visible because of the ooglith cloaker and the star-shaped breather, was heavily tattooed.
He could even use the star-shaped touch readers in a primitive fashion — at least to point himself in the right direction for searches of indexed material — and he could plug himself into the periphery of a group conference and get something out of it beyond the shorthand information contained in vocalized talk.