Definitions
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- adjective having five points
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Examples
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The other surface reveals a smooth five-pointed star, its branches separated by the fine stippling of hundreds of tiny nodules.
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Bryan Derballa for The Wall Street Journal At the center of the circular window is a Star of David, out of which bursts a spiral shape and a spray of five-pointed yellow stars against panels of greenish blue.
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We must then look heavenwards and see mystical significance in the mean orbit of Mercury, which sits "within the orbit of the earth in such a proportion that it fits exactly over the pentagon at the heart of the five-pointed star".
Prepare for the reign of Charles the Meddler | Nick Cohen 2011
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The tender almond cookies are cut out into star shapes with a cookie cutter, topped with a crisp meringue and then decorated with slices of almond to really send home that five-pointed star look.
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She is supposed also to have suggested the use of the five-pointed star rather than the six-pointed one chosen by Washington.
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She sits down on a bench and stares into a sea of white orange blossoms right beside her face, the fragrant five-pointed flowers floating in a sea of waxy green leaves.
Claudia Ricci: Seeing Red -- "Ronda is in Spain, Dizzy on Orange Blossoms" Claudia Ricci 2011
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The five-pointed star really comes from the Pythagoreans, a mathematical symbol of organic perfection.
Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011
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She cut the deck three times and drew the King of Pentacles, holding a five-pointed star and the reins of a sorrel horse.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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She sits down on a bench and stares into a sea of white orange blossoms right beside her face, the fragrant five-pointed flowers floating in a sea of waxy green leaves.
Claudia Ricci: Seeing Red -- "Ronda is in Spain, Dizzy on Orange Blossoms" Claudia Ricci 2011
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In the third clump, I unearth a five-pointed silver star.
Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011
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