Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An order of echinoderms, the starfishes: so called from their star-like form.
- A class of echinoderms, containing the sand-stars or ophiurians together with the starfishes, and more or less exactly equivalent to Stellerida (which see).
- Same as
Alcyonaria .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
class within thesuperclass Asterozoa — thestarfish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sea stars
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The outline of the body is akin with Asteroidea for ophiuroids have 5 arms which is connected with a central disk.
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