starfish

About 0.43 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
2. noun Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
3. noun 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. noun The anus.
5. verb To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish. While floating on water
6. verb While floating on water
7. verb To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.

Similar words

sea star sea seagoing asterias rubens thorns asteroidean brittle star echinasterid archasterid

Often followed by

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Word family

sea star starfishes