/woolf"ruy ay"/ ; Fr. /vawlf rddann ye"/
a very hot (35,000-100,000 K) and luminous star in the early stages of evolution, with broad emission lines in its spectrum. Also called W-R star .
[ 1885-90; after French astronomers Charles J. E. Wolf (1827-1918) and Georges Rayet (1839-1906) ]