Starfish

Quick meaning: Starfish is a noun meaning Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
2. (transitive) To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
3. (obsolete) Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
4. (vulgar, slang, usually in translations of Japanese pornography) The anus.
5. (slang) A woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: Asteroidea

Hands separated my ass cheeks while some pervert rimmed my puckered brown starfish.

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.

Word Forms

• starfishes
• starfishing
• starfished

Synonyms for starfish

Depending on context, synonyms include sea star, asteroid.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sea star, sea, seagoing, thorns, asteroidean, echinasterid.

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