starfish

Plural: starfish, starfishes

Noun

• A star-shaped marine invertebrate, also known as a sea star.
• echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk
• Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
• Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
• A woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs.
• The anus.

Verb

• To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
• To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
• While floating on water
• To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.

Examples

• Playing ’STARFISH’ allowed him to extend his word into a tricky corner of the Words With Friends board.

Synonyms

sea star, asteroid, chocolate starfish, cold fish, dead fish

Related Words

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