"starstuff" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From star + stuff. Compare Dutch sterrenstof (“stardust”), German Sternenstoff (“star matter”).",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Thom Hartmann, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight",
          "text": "Not only is the matter around you star-stuff, but you are, too. There is not a single cell in your body that is not made of matter formed in the heart, and then the death, of a distant and now-extinct star.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Michael Dowd, Thank God for Evolution",
          "text": "[…] We have begun to contemplate our origins—starstuff pondering the stars!",
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        {
          "ref": "2009, David Waite Yohn, Energy: Lifestyle For Today",
          "text": "Energy takes starstuff and turns it into a horse. Dissolves the horse back into stardust and uses the same starstuff to grow a tree.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Dave Barry, Peter and the Sword of Mercy",
          "text": "“The Cache,” said Leonard. “A large quantity of starstuff, hidden here in London centuries ago.” “Hidden by whom?” “By the original Starcatchers,” said Leonard.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, K. F. Long, Deep Space Propulsion: A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight",
          "text": "Others have discussed this idea, such as the physicist Greg Matloff, who states: In one of his books, the late Carl Sagan states that we are all 'starstuff,' since the atoms that compose us were mostly generated in the explosive demise of a super giant star.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Stephen Baxter, Xeelee: Vengeance",
          "text": "They were just a third of the solar radius out from the centre now, with nearly five hundred thousand kilometres of starstuff over their heads.",
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        "The material composition of stars; matter originated from stars; starmatter."
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          "word": "stardust"
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          "word": "star stuff"
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  "word": "starstuff"
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  "etymology_text": "From star + stuff. Compare Dutch sterrenstof (“stardust”), German Sternenstoff (“star matter”).",
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          "ref": "2009, Michael Dowd, Thank God for Evolution",
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          "text": "Energy takes starstuff and turns it into a horse. Dissolves the horse back into stardust and uses the same starstuff to grow a tree.",
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        },
        {
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      "word": "star stuff"
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