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NOVA
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Irregular inflected form: novae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and becomes more luminous in the process
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("nova" is a kind of...):
star ((astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior)
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