starlike

Resembling a star.

Pluto's starlike appearance in the telescope was an early clue that it was not the large Planet X astronomers had hoped for.

For example, long projections emerged from the cells and floated before they retracted, creating a starlike pattern.

Resembling or characteristic of a celebrity or leading actor.

Convex; having the property that any line segment joining any mapped point to a specified point in the domain lies entirely in the domain.

the growth theorem for holomorphic starlike mappings