Starfish
Definitions
- Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
- Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
- A woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs.
- The anus.
Equivalents
38 more languages
Българскиморска звезда
Bosanskiморска звезда
Češtinahvězdice
Dansksøstjerne
Ελληνικάαστερίας
Esperantomarstelo
Euskaraitsas izar
فارسیستاره دریایی
Suomimeritähti
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻipeʻa
עבריתכּוֹכַב יָם
Hrvatskiморска звезда
Magyartengeri csillag
Bahasa Indonesiabintang laut
Lietuviųjūrų žvaigždė
Te Reo Māoripekapeka
Македонскиморска ѕвезда
Bahasa Melayutapak sulaiman
Nederlandszeester
Polskirozgwiazda
Portuguêsestrela-do-mar
Românăstea de mare
Русскийморская звезда
Српскиморска звезда
Svenskasjöstjärna
Türkçedenizyıldızı
Українськаморська́ зі́рка
O'zbekchadengiz yulduzi
Tiếng Việtsao biển
Examples
“Near-synonym: Asteroidea”
“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.”
“Hands separated my ass cheeks while some pervert rimmed my puckered brown starfish.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
See also
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