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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.

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starfish

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starfish

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/

Noun

obsolete slang vulgar

Japanese Meaning

ヒトデ：通常は5本の腕を持つ海に生息するエキノドルムの一種で、実際には魚ではなく、二枚貝やサンゴなどを捕食する生物。

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サンゴ礁の近くでシュノーケリングをしていたとき、ヒトデがムール貝をゆっくりこじ開けて胃を外に出して食べ始めるのを見ました。

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

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.

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