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sea-star

sea-star is the alternative form of sea star.

Meaning of sea star

Noun

sea star (plural sea stars)

  1. A starfish (class Asteroidea).
    Synonyms:
    starfish, asteroid
  2. (obsolete) A star used for navigation or guidance at sea.
    • 1658: By the same number doth nature divide the circle of the Sea-Starre — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 188)

Forms of sea-star

pluralsea-stars

Phrases with sea-star

Questions about sea-star

What is sea-star the alternative form of?
Sea-star is the alternative form of sea star.

Words near sea-star in the dictionary

  1. sea-spouts
  2. sea-squirt
  3. sea-squirts
  4. sea-stack
  5. sea-stacks
  6. sea-star
  7. sea-star wasting disease
  8. sea-star-associated densovirus
  9. sea-star-associated densoviruses
  10. sea-stars
  11. sea-stick

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sea-star (page history and authors); sea star (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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