Noun
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
.
Verb
To
assume
a
splayed-out
shape
,
like
that
of
a
starfish
.