"blue giant" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: blue giants [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} blue giant (plural blue giants)
  1. (astronomy) a very hot and very luminous star that emits visible light in the blue portion of the spectrum. Wikidata QID: Q5855 Hypernyms: giant, giant star, star, celestial body Coordinate_terms: blue supergiant, blue dwarf, ;, red giant, red supergiant, red dwarf Translations (very luminous star): 藍巨星 /蓝巨星 (lánjùxīng) (Chinese Mandarin), sininen jättiläinen (Finnish), géante bleue [feminine] (French), ლურჯი გიგანტი (lurǯi giganṭi) (Georgian), Blauer Riese [masculine] (German), नीला दानव तारा (nīlā dānav tārā) [masculine] (Hindi), kék óriás (Hungarian), fathach gorm [masculine] (Irish), 青色巨星 (aoiro-kyosei) (alt: あおいろきょせい) (Japanese), син џин (sin džin) [masculine] (Macedonian), błękitny olbrzym [masculine] (Polish), gigante azul [feminine] (Portuguese), голубо́й гига́нт (golubój gigánt) [masculine] (Russian), плави џин (plavi džin) [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), gigante azul [feminine] (Spanish)

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