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UK
/stˈɑːfɪʃ/
]
[ US /ˈstɑɹˌfɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈstɑɹˌfɪʃ/ ]
NOUN
- echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk
How To Use starfish In A Sentence
- The starfish is preserved in soft white chalk, which fills in the interior of the animal.
- Next, we pack our gummy starfish into the two-seated poussette. Adventures in Babysitting, Part 1
- The final battle, although it seems rather misleading to describe it as such, involves wobbly Satan throwing rubber starfishes at Thor, which he then has to pretend are attacking him. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
- The whale's prey includes squid, cuttlefish, herring, and sea stars, or starfish.
- The seabed under the arch is covered in large boulders 18m below, all covered in an algal fuzz that is home to large numbers of wrasse, bream and spiny starfish.
- They had not intended to spend the afternoon, but found themselves too fascinated to turn away from the breakers bursting upon the rocks and from the many kinds of colorful sea life starfish, crabs, mussels, sea anemones, and, once, in a rock-pool, a small devilfish that chilled their blood when it cast the hooded net of its body around the small crabs they tossed to it. CHAPTER VI
- So the 10m ropes provide an ideal home where they can remain suspended above the seabed and out of reach of starfish, crabs, whelks and other predators.
- Cut a starfish in half and both halves can recover to produce two starfish.
- The starfish alone has both the strength and tenacity to force an oyster open.
- I whipped my keks down and mooned the Rover as it passed, my buttocks spread wide with my hands and my chocolate starfish pressed up against the cold glass. Army Rumour Service