sea star

noun

Origin:
1560–70

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sea star

noun
echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk [syn: starfish
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Sea star is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
Example sentences
Pedicellariae crunch down on small organisms that land on the skin of the sea
  star.
As ingenious as the mussel is at sticking to rocks, it can't always evade the
  hungry sea star.
They are the largest sea star in the kelp forest reaching lengths of over a
  meter from tip to tip.
When a sea star loses an arm, it can grow another to replace it.
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