starfish

IPA: stˈɑrfɪʃ

noun

  • 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.
  • (obsolete) Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
  • (slang) A woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs.
  • (vulgar, slang, usually in translations of Japanese pornography) The anus.

verb

  • (intransitive) To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
  • (transitive) To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
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Examples of "starfish" in Sentences

  • The shrimp consumes starfish alive.
  • Starfish lay flat on the bottom of the ocean.
  • The starfish was only formally identified in 1979.
  • Let her in the car and drive towards Starfish Island.
  • Aquaman fights the henchmen with the aid of a starfish.
  • The ship incorporated elements of a starfish and a crab.
  • The females and the males leave the starfish and mate in the sea.
  • Then at high tide, the starfish reappears on the surface of the water.
  • His name is that of the genus of echinoderms to which starfish belong.
  • According to the tale, this effectively doubled the starfish population.

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