Definition of "metal-poor" [metal-poor]

• Having a relatively low metal content (adjective)

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• "She was the first to demonstrate that metal-poor stars in the galactic halo (the faint sphere surrounding the galactic disk) have an overabundance of oxygen, relative to iron."
• "The team suspected that the methods used to find metal-poor stars in dwarf galaxies were biased in a way that caused the surveys to miss the most metal-poor stars."
• "Surveys over the past decade have failed to turn up any such extremely metal-poor stars in dwarf galaxies, however."