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  • noun science fiction One who comes from Rigel.

Etymologies

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Rigel +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • He watched them file out of the cave mouth one by one: a couple of Andorians, an Ithenite, a Rigellian Chelon, some more Andorians, a Trill, a Tellarite.

    Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010

  • I do not even stop to wonder why, three paragraphs earlier, the Rigellian cab-driver was ignoring a commercial advertisement for Temgee?

    Author vs. Critic - A Fairy Tale 2004

  • Jetanien is a Rigellian Chelon, a species glimpsed among the background aliens during Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

    Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005

  • Jetanien is a Rigellian Chelon, a species glimpsed among the background aliens during Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

    Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005

  • The Rigellian Chelon was the sort of person who could eat the messiest meal without making a spot anywhere on his snow-white, gold-hemmed, satin-textured raiment.

    Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005

  • The Rigellian Chelon was the sort of person who could eat the messiest meal without making a spot anywhere on his snow-white, gold-hemmed, satin-textured raiment.

    Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005

  • Well, I suppose you could use the Simpsons Manoeuvre - to quote Kang: No, actually I'm speaking Rigellian.

    languagehat.com: XENOLINGUISTICS AND FUTURESE. 2005

  • And there are books and tapes … they filter from your space into ours, in Orion loot and Rigellian trading hulls.

    The Final Reflection John M. Ford 2000

  • "Of course," the Rigellian whispered, and left with its tail around its neck.

    The Final Reflection John M. Ford 2000

  • That suffix is common in several of Standard's root languages, including, dear me, Rigellian Trade Dialect, to turn a nation-name into the nation-language—which itself is a less than wholly useful notion.

    The Final Reflection John M. Ford 2000

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