How To Use Starfish In A Sentence
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The starfish is preserved in soft white chalk, which fills in the interior of the animal.
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Next, we pack our gummy starfish into the two-seated poussette.
Adventures in Babysitting, Part 1
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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
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The whale's prey includes squid, cuttlefish, herring, and sea stars, or starfish.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Cut a starfish in half and both halves can recover to produce two starfish.
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The starfish alone has both the strength and tenacity to force an oyster open.
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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
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It is a fact that we are cousins of gorillas, kangaroos, starfish, and bacteria.
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Is it just me or do those practice flowers look like chocolate starfishes?
A Day in the Life of a Wreckerator, Pt 2
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Starfish is the first company to bring the smells of the Caribbean to us poor snowbound souls on the mainland.
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I got a shock out of my life when I saw the starfish was as big as my pillow!!!
Archive 2008-10-01
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In some animals, _e. g._, sea-urchins, the skeleton is a simple sphere; in others, _e. g._, starfish, secondary rows of spheres radiate out from a central sphere or ring; in annulate animals the skeleton consists of a row of partially fused spheres.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Although animals such as planaria and starfish can regrow virtually any part of their bodies, humans have restricted regenerative capabilities.
Media Newswire
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If you rip a starfish apart, you get two starfishes. jen don
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Parrotfish, filefish and sergeant major fish prowled as starfish lurked on the bottom.
CANOE Travel Features
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For instance, it appears the ancestor of brainless starfish and sea urchins had a brain.
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Most starfish are predators, feeding on sessile or slow-moving prey such as mollusks and barnacles.
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Regeneration has been entrained to complete an asexual life cycle in fissiparous and comet-forming starfish.
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Some, like many starfish, are predators; holothurians, sand dollars, and ophiuroids often feed on detritus; crinoids are filter-feeders; sea urchins scrape algae from rocks.
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Only an experienced needlewoman could do justice in words to such a variety of rimplings and crinklings, of pleatings and puckerings, of gaugings, rufflings, gofferings, and pin-tuckings as it is possible to find; though somebody with a knowledge of heraldry could perhaps convey a few of the designs in such terms as nebuly, raguly or dancetty (semée, he might add, of starfish proper).
Try Anything Twice
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This subkingdom comprises at present such familiar forms as the crinoid, the starfish, and the sea urchin.
The Elements of Geology
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The long slender arms are flexible, unlike the starfish shown previously.
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The Starfish is one of the most curious creatures in the sea.
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The senior students were keen to observe the invertebrate marine animals, such as starfish, urchins and crustaceans.
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We drew prancing starfishes; frogs in mortal combat; hydra-headed worms; stately crawfishes, standing on their tails, bearing aloft umbrellas; and grotesque fishes with gaping mouths and staring eyes.
Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction
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Williams et al. compare the biogeographic signal in mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences in Indo-West Pacific starfish and snapping shrimp.
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Stars. Centennial, the moon, box, the Christmas tree. Snowflake, shellfish, fish-like, Butterfly, Maple Leaf, Titan, starfish, flower, sunflower and other stone.
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For example, when discussing the unfortunate Boohbah phenomenon, he has this to say: "Since Boohbah is essentially an exercise show for young children, it's perhaps unfortunate that the show's five leading aliens resemble the end of the evolutionary line for a race of rotund starfishes who mated once too often with unspecified but highly rubberized sex toys".
Archive 2006-04-01
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the starfish illustrates radial symmetry
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Most fossil starfish consist of scattered individual plates or segments of arms.
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A flaccid, unwholesome-looking hand was raised slowly, in a kind of deprecatory gesture; then allowed to fall again upon the belly where it lay, with the five fingers, round and chalky-white, extended like the rays of a starfish.
South Wind
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Starfish, sea-urchins, clams and corals lie just yards from the shore.
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Sea urchins and starfish are the last and most obvious group of marine creatures lurking to catch unwary and clumsy humans.
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Some animals also show great ability to regenerate: small fragments of animals such as starfish, planarians, and Hydra can give rise to a whole animal.
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It is noted that fissiparous and cometforming starfish have entrained the regeneration pathway into their life cycle.
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The senior students were keen to observe the invertebrate marine animals, such as starfish, urchins and crustaceans.
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Only an experienced needlewoman could do justice in words to such a variety of rimplings and crinklings, of pleatings and puckerings, of gaugings, rufflings, gofferings, and pin-tuckings as it is possible to find; though somebody with a knowledge of heraldry could perhaps convey a few of the designs in such terms as nebuly, raguly or dancetty (semée, he might add, of starfish proper).
Try Anything Twice
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Apparently, if your starfish is a little too brown for your liking, you can make it more skin-colored.
Two Words I Did Not Want To Hear:
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We drew prancing starfishes; frogs in mortal combat; hydra-headed worms; stately crawfishes, standing on their tails, bearing aloft umbrellas; and grotesque fishes with gaping mouths and staring eyes.
Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction
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The need for such research has become more critical in recent years with the Reef's inclusion on the World Heritage List, concern resulting from crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks and intensifying human demands placed on the resource.
Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, Australia
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starfish are actinoid--that is, they are radially symmetrical
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The one-of-a-kind bijoux—a sapphire-encrusted starfish brooch and gumball-sized pearl and diamond swan earrings—are available at Ms. Druckenmiller's year-old Upper East Side gallery-cum-boutique, F.D. a mecca for seekers of 20th-century Cartier baubles, vintage Birkin bags and antique Rolexes.
Fresh Picks: Fashion News
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Local marine reserves offer tide pools full of starfish, crabs, mussels, abalone, and sea anemones.
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That's possible because the starfish is a completely decentralized organism.
Why The Tea Party Is Like A Starfish, Not A Spider
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Paradoxical as this may appear to Mr. Mivart, tridactyle forcepses, immovably fixed at the base, but capable of a snapping action, certainly exist on some starfishes; and this is intelligible if they serve, at least in part, as a means of defence.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
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Starfish, sea-urchins, clams and corals lie just yards from the shore.
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Examples of meroplankton include larvae of sea urchins, starfish, clams, crustaceans, worms and most fish.
Plankton
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Only an experienced needlewoman could do justice in words to such a variety of rimplings and crinklings, of pleatings and puckerings, of gaugings, rufflings, gofferings, and pin-tuckings as it is possible to find; though somebody with a knowledge of heraldry could perhaps convey a few of the designs in such terms as nebuly, raguly or dancetty (semée, he might add, of starfish proper).
Try Anything Twice
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And it doesn't get much more unusual than having mantra rays and starfish witnessing your wedding day.
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You can sometimes find large starfish, edible crabs and squat lobsters here.
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You will find brightly coloured anemones, firebrick starfish and urchins.
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Thus far there are no serious signs of predation by crabs or starfish.
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The Great Barrier Reef provides a home for 5,000 to 8,000 species of mollusk and 800 species of echinoderm a phylum that includes starfish and sea urchins.
Australia's Great Barrier Reef
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Rudloe has launched Operation Noah's Ark, using his four-acre facility an hour south of Tallahassee to preserve more than 350 different specimens – everything from sharks to starfish, shrimp and batfish – in an environment that includes a grassland and duplicates high and low tides.
'Operation Noah's Ark' Tries To Rescue Gulf Sealife
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We had watched both the wheel and the starfish "unload" at the way station.
The Garden of Rama
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Most of the decorating theft will come from Mr. Gili's own country house and studio in Piedmont: threadbare American flags as makeshift slipcovers, wall-mounted marlins next to Italian candelabras, starfish glued to marble mantels, grass-green window frames against blue walls, pillows tied with silk scarves.
Looking at Rooms as Love Affairs
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The shape - octopuslike, starfishlike, machine - approached on thin, invisible jets.
Starfarers
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You can find urchins and starfish on the rocky ledges and brittle stars and edible crabs on the sandy bottom.
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Great sea slugs crawled about on the bottom with gigantic starfish, and actiniae of vivid colours spread their tentacled blossoms.
Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track
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There's sea water where you could explore starfish and various other corals.
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the aboral surface of a starfish
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But the real price is paid in dead corals, as fewer of the giant gastropods roam the ocean floor, searching for starfish to hoover the insides out of.
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Four hundred years ago, glass mirrors were as marvelous as starfish, toadstones and sapphires.
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The starfish along with sea urchins and relatives including feather stars, brittle stars, basket stars, sea daisies, sea lilies, and sea cucumbers make up the Phylum Echinodermata.
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Large sunstars decorated the rock and I noted many types of starfish, including cushionstars, spiny starfish and blood henries.
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If one tentacle is chopped off, the starfish grows a new one, making it a model of resilience.
Is The Tea Party Movement Like A Pyramid Scheme?
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Mechnikov observed, in the larvae of starfishes, mobile cells which might, he thought, serve as part of the defences of these organisms and, to test this idea, he introduced into them small thorns from a tangerine tree which had been prepared as a
Ilya Mechnikov - Biography
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The variety of aquatic wildlife reads like an open casting call for Finding Nemo: Over 1,500 species of fish, 5,000-8,000 species of mollusks, 30 species of whales and dolphins, 600 species of echinoderm such as starfish, 17 varieties of sea snakes, and 6 species of marine turtles which are listed as threatened.
Yvonne Yorke: The Great Barrier Reef: From Above and Below
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When a hard shell protects the prey, such as mussels and oysters, the starfish tugs steadily with its arms until the shells part slightly.
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The two men live in a world where preverbal children, using handsets called "Starfish", can download music by "pointing", and have thereby become "arbiters of musical success".
How novels came to terms with the internet
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The long slender arms are flexible, unlike the starfish shown previously.
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You will often find species of shrimp living on urchins and starfish in the tropics and, if you look carefully, might also find very small hermit crabs adopting the same behaviour, particularly on starfish.
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I could also see large marine isopods, looking like giant marine slaters, and some flower-like sea lilies (crinoids, a group of echinoderms related to starfishes).
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The large number of strictly pentamerous families of starfish support the interpretation that there is ‘rigid control’ of pentamerism.
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Some areas are covered with thick juvenile mussel beds on which abundant starfish graze.
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When a live starfish is turned over hundreds of tube feet ending in suckers are seen.
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Echinoderms include the sea urchins and starfish.
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I like dis cap, i haz deh liddul starfishes on it.
Teleport machine need work - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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When breeding in the summer the male fertilizes the adult female starfish which then discharges up to twenty million eggs into the sea.
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Spotted about the rocks and slope is a fairly full selection of UK starfish - common and spiny, biscuit-coloured seven-armed and brightly coloured sunstars.
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We were told it was trying to escape because the starfish is a natural predator.
I molt therefore I am
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Yoa Ogee: Yes, the starfishes on the ground play much better than me.
Yoa Ogee's "high tech life forms" for peace... and smiles
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Thus, changes of salinity in the field may contribute to the observed 0.2 % four rayed starfish.
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The long slender arms are flexible, unlike the starfish shown previously.
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Unlike most starfish which are actively carnivorous, it is thought to be a plankton feeder.
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Pantone had a beach party in mind when the color experts named the Top 10 shades for women next spring: tangerine tango, solar power, sodalite blue, bellflower, margarita, cabaret, driftwood, sweet lilac, cockatoo think sea foamy and starfish.
ABC News: Top Stories
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Unlike any other starfish, crown-of-thorns prey directly on live coral.
Crown-of-thorn sea star
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Growth on the hull of the wreck consists largely of small shells with grazing sea urchins and starfish.
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Now he has followed it up with (groan) a sequel, _Maelstrom_; _groan_ because the commercial strategy of tying the two books together has necessitated weighing down virtually the first third of what could have just as well been a free-standing novel with a detailed recapitulation of the events of _Starfish_ and their relation to the surface world that almost had me giving up on the book.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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Also the starfish is named Frankenlolly and the Clam is named Glenda.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Sketch a Day: 01-07-2008
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Spotted about the rocks and slope is a fairly full selection of UK starfish - common and spiny, biscuit-coloured seven-armed and brightly coloured sunstars.
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Scattered on the cloth are pinecones and seashells, a sand dollar, a starfish, a sea urchin.
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Their notable finds included a deep-sea shark that swells its size by filling its stomach with water to scare off other predators, and a starfish that eats only driftwood.
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While their father was busy, the twins clambered over the rocks, hunting for starfishes and sea-urchins, and Gerda picked a bouquet of bright blossoms for their table on the boat.
Gerda in Sweden
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Starfish were plentiful and there were several different species, some familiar, like the many-armed sunstars, but others quite new, such as those with six arms coiled around in a spiral, as though trying to keep themselves warm.
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Shards of luminous marine life, every shade and combination of hues, deep blue starfish and the mystically-shaped coral itself provided a living, mobile tableau in the emerald green waters.
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the oral surface of a starfish
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Sea urchins Arbacia dufresnii are abundant in the marine area, as are whelks Argobuccinun sp., chitons, starfishes, sea anemones, bryzoans, barnacles, slipper limpets, nudibranchs and sponges.
Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom
