starfish

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
2. (obsolete) Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
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.
4. (slang, usually, vulgar) The anus.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
2. (intransitive) To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
3. (transitive) To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.

Conceptos

estrella de mar

estrellas de mar

asteroidea

Sinónimos

sea star

asteroid

crucifix

five-finger

rood

shell

🐚

star

⭐

Ester

aster

seastar

cross

Traducciones

étoile de mer

Seestern

estrela-do-mar

αστερίας

astérie

stella marina

stella di mare

estrella de mar

zeester

denizyıldızı

asteria

zeesterren

estèla de mar

Seesterne

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈstɑː(ɹ)fɪʃ/

Etimología (Inglés)

From star + fish.