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Meanings of sea stars in English

(Asteroidea) Animals belonging to the echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk.

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        Examples for "starfish"
        Examples for "starfish"
        1
        The bottoms of tiny sea-pools were dotted with red and yellow starfish.
        Where the Sun Swings North
        2
        The starfish is one of the most deadly enemies of these bivalves.
        The Book of Household Management
        3
        On going down to the sea I found many species of starfish.
        Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Weste...
        4
        The stretched-out slow-time ripping open of a scallop by a famished starfish.
        The Scar
        5
        Most starfish, of which there are roughly 1800 species, pose no hazard.
        The new yorker
        Usage of sea stars in English
        1
        But one group of deuterostomes, the sea stars, now lack the organ.
        BBC
        2
        There were no sea stars.
        The wandering fire
        3
        They plunged past massive, lurking menaces in the lower depths where the sea stars were dim and colors lost.
        The wandering fire
        4
        The pillars of the Busselton Jetty attract all types of sea life like sea stars, schools of fish, and seaweed.
        News.com.au
        5
        But I owe you, brother-thesea stars are shining in a certain place again because you bound me to your aid.
        The darkest road
        6
        It was immense, and shaped something like two sea stars joined face to face, kissing, their arms twisted at odd angles.
        Battlestar Galactica
        7
        The prom brings you to Grattan Beach, where I've found everything from cuttlefish to sea stars to small conger eels in tidepools.
        The Irish Times
        8
        On the hull of the ship, sea stars in orange and purple crawled among anemones like bright flowers of green and gold.
        Sons of the Oak
        9
        They'll also work their way into sea stars, and are so named because they've been found dead inside oysters, completely coated in mother-of-pearl.
        Wired
        10
        Sea stars will shine here again because of you.
        The wandering fire