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Meaning of starfish

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

starfish

Pronunciation:/ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/

noun

Definitions

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

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

  4. (usually in translations of Japanese pornography) The anus.

    Synonyms:chocolate starfish

verb

Definitions

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

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