TUBE FOOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tube foot mean? 

• TUBE FOOT (noun)
  The noun TUBE FOOT has 1 sense:

1. tentacular tubular process of most echinoderms (starfish and sea urchins and holothurians) having a sucker at the end and used for e.g. locomotion and respiration

  Familiarity information: TUBE FOOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUBE FOOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tentacular tubular process of most echinoderms (starfish and sea urchins and holothurians) having a sucker at the end and used for e.g. locomotion and respiration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tube foot" is a kind of...):

foot; invertebrate foot (any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates)

Holonyms ("tube foot" is a part of...):

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