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Stylaster

Stylaster \Sty*las"ter\, n. [NL., from Gr. ? pillar + ? star.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous hydroid corals of the genus Stylaster.

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stylaster

n. (context zoology English) Any of the genus (taxlink Stylaster genus) of calcareous hydroid corals.

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Stylaster

Stylaster is a genus of hydroids in the family Stylasteridae.

Usage examples of "stylaster".

As you seem to know, we have only the one ship capable of doing what you want us to do-which, I presume, is to land on Mormyr and get you and Stylaster to this ship or whatever that's down there.

Ecdyon knew the score, and I was willing to bet that Stylaster knew as well.

Only Grainger and the bounds of possibility stood between Charlot and Stylaster, and Charlot was not the man to respect the bounds of possibility.

No one could have been more surprised than Charlot when the Gallacellan named Stylaster offered co-operation in return for Charlot's assistance in a little matter of salvage.

He introduced himself formally but I could tell by his clothes that he wasn't Stylaster, and so far as I was aware we had no other Gallacellans on board yet.

But the idea of Stylaster addressing a question to me-whether he used an interpreter or not was just not credible.

The idea of Stylaster using a man like Maslax for his own ends was patently ludicrous.

I was directly above the spot that Stylaster had wanted me to aim for the day before.

From the moment Stylaster contacted Charlot, this thing has been an utter and complete farce.

Do you have any idea what Stylaster intended to do once we brought him here?

And Ecdyon, despite his association with Stylaster, was less likely to be in a position of omniscience than I, with my proximity to Charlot.

The message said that Ferrier ought to stop Titus Charlot, for everyone's sake, because Stylaster didn't know what was best for either humans or Gallacellans.

I could catch up on the news about Stylaster while Charlot was catching up on the news about the Varsovien.

That was what the Gallacellans wanted too, and Stylaster had been prepared to go to Andromeda to find it.