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sea star

sea star noun: a starfish (class Asteroidea).

sea star: a starfish (class Asteroidea)
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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)

sea star meaning in Tamil

sea star in Tamil

கடலுடு

Synonyms of sea star

Forms of sea star

pluralsea stars
alternative formsea-star
alternative formseastar

Origin of sea star

From sea + star. Compare West Frisian seestjer (“sea star”), Dutch zeester (“sea star”), German Seestern (“sea star”), Danish søstjerne (“sea star”), Swedish sjöstjärna (“sea star”), Icelandic sjóstjarna (“sea star”).

Words formed from sea star

Questions about sea star

What does sea star mean?
Sea star means a starfish (class Asteroidea).
What is sea star in Tamil?
Sea star in Tamil is கடலுடு. See Sea star meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sea star?
Sea star is a noun.
What is the plural of sea star?
The plural of sea star is sea stars.

Words near sea star in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sea star (page history and authors); sea star (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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