starfish

Definition

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

Etymology

From star + fish.

Example Sentences

• "Near-synonym: Asteroidea"
• "But the largest of the star-fish kind is that sea monster called kruken, kraken or krabben. [...] As this enormous sea-animal in all probability may be reckoned of the polype, or of the star-fish, kind, it seems that the parts which are seen rising at its pleasure, and are called arms, are properly the tentacula, or feeding instruments, called horns as well as arms."
• "Hands separated my ass cheeks while some pervert rimmed my puckered brown starfish."