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What does starfish mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word starfish? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. 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.
  2. (obsolete) Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
Verb
  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.
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