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| starfish | |
| 1. sost. stella di mare | |
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| starfish | |
| 1. subst. 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. subst. (obsolete) Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod. |  |
| 3. subst. (slang) A woman who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lays on her back while spreading her limbs. |  |
| 4. subst. (vulgar, slang) an anus. See also chocolate starfish. |  |
| 5. v. (intransitive) To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish. |  |
| 6. v. To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish. |  |