Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/ · noun
Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach..
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.
"Oh you damn bastard, why won't you let anybody love you," and then, before I could stop her, she threw herself between us and the glowing suitcase, starfishing in the blaze of light as he blew up.
The freckle on her eye starfished out and the sun began to move over her face like it does below the surface of water.
The sea roared up her nostrils, tunnelled into her ears, and flung her forward, then back, the current pulling her fingers apart, starfishing her hands.
Use starfish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Starfish means Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach..
Common synonyms include sea star, asteroid, mul:Asteroidea, cold fish.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Near-synonym: Asteroidea
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.