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seastar

seastar 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 seastar

pluralseastars

Phrases with seastar

Questions about seastar

What is seastar the alternative form of?
Seastar is the alternative form of sea star.

Words near seastar in the dictionary

  1. seaspider
  2. seaspiders
  3. seaspray
  4. seasprays
  5. seastained
  6. seastar
  7. seastar associated densovirus
  8. seastar associated densoviruses
  9. seastar wasting disease
  10. seastar-associated densovirus
  11. seastar-associated densoviruses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seastar (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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