starfish
/ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/IPA: /S T AA1 R F IH0 SH/
noun
- 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.
- 2
Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
- 3
A woman who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lays on her back while spreading her limbs.
- 4
(usually in translations of Japanese pornography) The anus.
verb
- 1
To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
- 2
To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
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