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A starfish, or brittle star.
A pentagonal starfish.
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a.
Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoology, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish.
n.
The dollar fish, or butterfish.
n. pl.
An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans.
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A genus of ophiurioid starfishes.
v.
An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
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One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes.
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One of a peculiar kind of spines covering the surface of certain starfishes. They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules. See Illustration in Appendix.
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One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
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A starfish, or brittle star.
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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.
n.
Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish.
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One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish.
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A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix.
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A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.
imp.
Starved.
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The European redstart.
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A starfish.
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One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes.
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