Rigelian
- noun
- /rɪˈdʒiːliən/
- Literature
- Rigelian Gamma
Examples
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A moment later, spent and dazed from his busy early morning, the Rigelian Gamma was lassoed and violently pulled apart by our angry students, faculty, and groundskeepers.
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Partly because one of the Rigelian Gamma's cowgirl victims had been Najeeb's sometime lover, but mostly because he knew a good political cause when he saw one, he roused first our campus and then the town.
Fiction book (2000) -
Within a week, almost all the thousands of alien traders, protoplasm collectors, students, adventurers, and diplomats who had come to Earth (named psarkit djah, "our new frontier," in middle high Rigelian) were gone.
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In the science fiction novel, the hero befriends a Rigelian who shares stories about their advanced technology.
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The artist's latest painting depicts a Rigelian landscape filled with vibrant colors and strange plants.
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At the intergalactic conference, several Rigelians exchanged ideas about peace and collaboration between planets.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rigelian names a person or creature imagined to come from the star Rigel, just like Martian names someone from Mars. The star's name comes from an old Arabic word for 'foot', but the useful idea is 'from Rigel' when you hear Rigelian.
