"blue straggler" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: blue stragglers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} blue straggler (plural blue stragglers)
  1. (astronomy) An unusually hot and blue star in globular clusters. Wikipedia link: blue straggler Categories (topical): Astronomy, Stars Translations (unusually hot and blue star): نجوم زرقاء شاردَة [masculine] (Arabic), estrella endarrerida blava [feminine] (Catalan), Blaue Nachzügler [masculine] (German), blå etterslenger (Norwegian Bokmål), blå etternølar (Norwegian Nynorsk), estrella rezagada azul [feminine] (Spanish), blå eftersläntrar (Swedish), mavi başıboş (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-blue_straggler-en-noun-rG778iCw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences

Inflected forms

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