STARFISH (starfishes)

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Irregular inflected form: starfishes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does starfish mean? 

• STARFISH (noun)
  The noun STARFISH has 1 sense:

1. echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk

  Familiarity information: STARFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STARFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

sea star; starfish

Hypernyms ("starfish" is a kind of...):

echinoderm (marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies)

Holonyms ("starfish" is a member of...):

Asteroidea; class Asteroidea (sea stars)

 Context examples 

We strolled a long way, and loaded ourselves with things that we thought curious, and put some stranded starfish carefully back into the water—I hardly know enough of the race at this moment to be quite certain whether they had reason to feel obliged to us for doing so, or the reverse—and then made our way home to Mr. Peggotty's dwelling.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

These animals include jaguars, Spix's macaws, harpy eagles, vinaceous-breasted amazons, crowned solitary eagles, hawksbill turtles, green turtles, tarantulas, Amazon false coral snakes, Brazilian green racer snakes, cream-colored woodpeckers, blue spiny starfish, sharks, seahorses, piaba fish, sawfish, bluefin tuna, brown howler monkeys.

(Over 300 animal species threatened in Bahia, Agência Brasil)