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Starfish

/ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/

Any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.

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noun
  1. 1

    Any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.

  2. 2

    Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.

  3. 3

    A woman who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lays on her back while spreading her limbs.

  4. 4

    (usually in translations of Japanese pornography) The anus.

verb
  1. 1

    To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.

  2. 2

    To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.

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