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FLARE STAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A red dwarf star in which luminosity can change several magnitudes in a few minutes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("flare star" is a kind of...):
red dwarf; red dwarf star (a small, old, relatively cool star; approximately 100 times the mass of Jupiter)
Instance hyponyms:
Proxima; Proxima Centauri (the nearest star to the sun; distance: 4.3 light years)
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