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yellow dwarf

n. any of several virus diseases of plants characterized by stunting and yellowing of the leaves

Usage examples of "yellow dwarf".

The supergiant has a small companion, a yellow dwarf not very different from our Sun.

That world, in an Earthlike orbit around a type G yellow dwarf, must have a surface temperature of around five hundred degrees Fahrenheit.

So what we're dealing with is a planet in an orbital situation that involves a yellow dwarf, namely Ratner's star, and a supermassive invisible object, or gravitational singularity if you will, or black hole, to use the popular term.

His imagination picked a yellow dwarf star, behind him as he looked toward Channith, with a family of four dead planets.

Fusion-tube temperature dropped until the exhaust, usually hotter than the core of a nova, was as cool as the surface of a yellow dwarf star.