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What is the noun for starfish?

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starfish
  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.
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    1. “The starfish alone has both the strength and tenacity to force an oyster open.”
starfishes
  1. plural of starfish
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    1. “Thus the larv of the starfishes were called bipinnaria, the larv of the sea-urchins Pluteus, and so on.”
      “Crinoids are marine invertebrates, classified in the echinoderm family, in which we find in particular sea urchins and starfishes.”
      “You will be able there to swim and take photographs of the starfishes which paper the bottom of transparent water.”
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