Definitions for STARFISHˈstɑrˌfɪʃ
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
star•fishˈstɑrˌfɪʃ(n.)(pl.)-fish; -fish•es.
any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, having a radial body, usu. in the form of a star, with five or more arms radiating from a central disk.
Category: Invertebrates
Ref: Also called sea star.
Origin of starfish:
1530–40
Princeton's WordNet
starfish, sea star(noun)
echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk
Wiktionary
starfish(Noun)
Any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
starfish(Noun)
an anus. See also chocolate starfish.
Origin: star + fish
Webster Dictionary
Starfish(noun)
any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid
Starfish(noun)
the dollar fish, or butterfish
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Starfish
Echinoderms having bodies of usually five radially disposed arms coalescing at the center.
Translations for STARFISH
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
starfish(noun)
a type of small sea creature with five points as arms.
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- sao biểnVietnamese

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