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Word | Starfish |
Afrikaans Meaning | seesterre |
echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk / 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. / a marine echinoderm with five or more radiating arms. The undersides of the arms bear tube feet for locomotion and, in predatory species, for opening the shells of mollusks., | |
Usage | ⇒ We can see a lot of starfishes in the sea ⇒ The little boy was so starfished that he ate a whole turkey by himself! I starfished when the food ran out ⇒ Scattered on the cloth are pinecones and seashells, a sand dollar, a starfish , a sea urchin. |
Synonyms | echinoderm, sea star, asteroid, cuttlefish, deal, dolphin, fingerfish, five-armed creature, five-armed sea creature, flock, gang, group, hand, herd, huddle, humpback, jellyfish, man-of-war, mob, octopus, |
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