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sea star

American  

noun

  1. starfish.


Etymology

Origin of sea star

First recorded in 1560–70

Example Sentences

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Bat didn’t like gummy candy, but he always got one gummy sea star anyway.

From Literature

And there's a deep-sea hermit crab, living not inside a shell, but a sea star the team can't immediately identify.

From Barron's

Measuring roughly 55 feet long and 18 feet wide, the float featured a dense seascape of corals, fish and oversize sea stars, some spanning 4 feet in diameter.

From Los Angeles Times

In turn, sea urchins are an important food source for many marine mammals, fish, crustaceans, and sea stars.

From Science Daily

The robot plucked sea stars and sea urchins and sea snails from the water and dropped them into rock pools along the shore.

From Literature