starfish

1. Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.

   Near-synonym: Asteroidea

   Seestern

   морска́я звезда́morskája zvezdá

   морська́ зі́ркаmorsʹká zírka

   echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk

2. (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.

3. (slang, vulgar)The anus.

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

1. I use chlorine to clean the starfish.

   deIch reinige die Seesterne mit Chlor.

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2. Tom found a starfish.

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3. There will be other conservation efforts, including combating coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish and illegal fishing.

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4. Are starfish edible?

   deSind Seesterne essbar?

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5. Starfish are brainless creatures.

   deSeesterne sind hirnlose Wesen.

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