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1. (n.) starfish
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.
Etymology: (1530–40)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) starfish, sea star
echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) starfish
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
2. (noun) starfish
the dollar fish, or butterfish
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. starfish
Echinoderms having bodies of usually five radially disposed arms coalescing at the center.
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Sense: a type of small sea creature with five points as arms.
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 Afrikaans: seester |
 Arabic: نَجْم البَحْر، قِنْديل ال |
 Bulgarian: морска звезда |
 Brazilian: estrela do mar |
 Czech: hvězdice |
 German: der Seestern |
 Danish: søstjerne |
 Greek: αστερίας |
 Estonian: meritäht |
 Farsi: ستاره دريايي |
 Finnish: meritähti |
 French: étoile de mer |
 Hebrew: כּוֹכָב-יָם |
 Hindi: तारामीन |
 Croatian: morska zvijezda |
 Hungarian: tengeri csillag |
 Indonesian: bintang laut |
 Icelandic: krossfiskur |
 Italian: stella di mare |
 Japanese: ひとで |
 Korean: 불가사리 |
 Lithuanian: jūrų žvaigždė |
 Latvian: jūraszvaigzne |
 Malay: tapak sulaiman |
 Dutch: zeester |
 Norwegian: sjøstjerne |
 Polish: rozgwiazda |
 Portuguese: estrela do mar |
 Romanian: stea de mare |
 Russian: морская звезда |
 Slovak: hviezdica |
 Slovenian: morska zvezda |
 Serbian: morska zvezda |
 Swedish: sjöstjärna |
 Thai: ปลาดาว |
 Turkish: deniz yıldızı |
 Taiwanese: 海星(魚) |
 Ukrainian: морська зірка |
 Urdu: ستارپ ،مچھلی |
 Vietnamese: sao biển |
 Chinese: 海星（鱼） |
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