MEANING
Having insufficient mass for sustained ordinary hydrogen fusion characteristic of a star.
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- a substellar object
- substellar companion
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The survey identified a substellar companion near the brighter source.
They compared the substellar object’s spectrum with the model.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Relational adjective; comparative and superlative normally not used. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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