English Dictionary

starfish

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/

名詞

廃用 俗語 卑語

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.

日本語の意味

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。

While snorkeling near the reef, I watched a starfish slowly pry open a mussel and begin to evert its stomach.

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。

意味（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.

意味（2）

(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.

意味（3）

(slang) A woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs.

意味（4）

(vulgar, slang, usually in translations of Japanese pornography) The anus.

Hands separated my ass cheeks while some pervert rimmed my puckered brown starfish.

starfishes （ plural ）

starfish （ plural ）