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Rarestarfish
The correct spelling is starfish.
How to pronounce starfish
/ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/
nounIPA: /ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/
Say it like: Sta-rfi-sh
The correct spelling is starfish. 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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Meanings
noun
- 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.
verb
- 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.
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