different between starfish vs seastar
starfish
English
Etymology
star +? fish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st??(?)f??/
Noun
starfish (plural starfishes or starfish)
- Any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
- (obsolete) Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
- 1755, Erik Pontoppidan, trans. Isaac Kimbler, Explanation of the Plate of Uncommon Star Fish, Extracted from the Natural History of Norway
- 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.
- 1755, Erik Pontoppidan, trans. Isaac Kimbler, Explanation of the Plate of Uncommon Star Fish, Extracted from the Natural History of Norway
- (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.
- (vulgar, slang, usually in translations of Japanese pornography) The anus.
- Synonym: chocolate starfish
Synonyms
- (various echinoderms): sea star, asteroid
- (inactive sexual partner): cold fish, dead fish
Translations
Verb
starfish (third-person singular simple present starfishes, present participle starfishing, simple past and past participle starfished)
- (intransitive) To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
- 1981, Kit Reed, Magic Time (page 229)
- "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.
- 1981, Kit Reed, Magic Time (page 229)
- (transitive) To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
See also
- Starfish site
starfish From the web:
- what starfish eat
- what starfish are reef safe
- what starfish eat coral
- what starfish are poisonous
- what starfish is patrick
- what starfish look like
- what starfish taste like
seastar
English
Etymology
sea +? star
Noun
seastar (plural seastars)
- Alternative spelling of sea star
Anagrams
- Ae stars, sea rats, searats, tessara-
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??as?t?????]
Verb
seastar
- present indicative autonomous of seas
- present subjunctive autonomous of seas
- imperative autonomous of seas
Mutation
seastar From the web:
- what sea stars eat
- what sea starts with c
- what do sea stars eat
- what does seastar eat
- how do sea stars feed
- what are seastar glasses worth ajpw
- what do sea stars do
- what is seastar oil
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