basket star
basket star · basket stars
Any brittle star with many-branched arms, that live in deep-sea habitats, principally…Any brittle star with many-branched arms, that live in deep-sea habitats, principally in family Gorgonocephalidae, of order Euryalida or of suborder Euryalina in order Phrynophiurida.
Meaning
1 sensesAny brittle star with many-branched arms, that live in deep-sea habitats, principally in family Gorgonocephalidae, of order Euryalida or of suborder Euryalina in order Phrynophiurida.
More definitions
- any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc
Forms
plural: basket stars| Singular | basket star |
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Synonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc:basket fish