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Look up: Starfish

  1. starfish
    Waters:Atlantic and Gulf coasts (most species); there is one Pacific species. Description (in water): A small fish (average 8 oz.; max. 10 inches long) with a round, flat body and forked tail. The deep blue back fades into a steely, silvery belly. Its scales are fine, almost nonexistent. Description (in market): Butterfish have dark, sweet, richly flavorful meat that's high in fat and tender in texture.
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  2. starfish
    [n] - echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk
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  3. Starfish
    NATO designation for ship-launched anti-submarine missile [SU]
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  4. Starfish
    Star'fish noun 1. (Zoology) Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are ...
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  5. starfish
    1. <zoology> Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles t...
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  6. starfish
    sea star noun echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk
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  7. Starfish
    • (n.) Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the d...
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  8. starfish
    any marine invertebrate of the class Asteroidea (phylum Echinodermata) having rays, or arms, surrounding an indistinct disk. They are not fishes.[10 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/154

  9. Starfish
    HMS Starfish was a British Sealion Class submarine of 715 tons displacement launched during the early 1940's and sunk during the Second World War. HMS Starfish was armed with one 3-inch gun; one 20 mm anti-aircraft gun; three machine-guns; six 21-inch torpedo tubes in the bow and one external 21 inc...
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  10. starfish
    starfish: see sea star.
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  11. Starfish
    Starfish is a popular name for the members of the order Asteroidea of the echinoderms.
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  12. starfish
    Any echinoderm of the subclass Asteroidea with arms radiating from a central body. Usually there are five arms, but some species have more. They are covered with spines and small pincerlike organs. There are also a number of small tubular processes on the skin surface that assist in locomotion and re...
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  13. starfish
    an echinoderm of the class Asteroidea with five or more arms.
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  14. Starfish
    `Starfish` or `sea stars` are echinoderms belonging to the class `Asteroidea`. The names "starfish" and "sea star" essentially refer to members of the class Asteroidea. However, common usage frequently finds "starfish" and "sea star" also applied to ophiuroids...
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  15. Starfish
    (album) The breakthrough 1988 album by The Church, `Starfish` has remained the band`s most commercially successful release. The first single, "Under the Milky Way", charted well into the American Top 40, peaking at #24 and #2 on Mainstream Rock Tracks leading to significant e...
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  16. Starfish
    (band) `Starfish` is an Austin, Texas based indie rock band that was formed in 1993. Members included Ronna Era, Jason Morales and Scott Marcus, formerly of Glass Eye (also known from Richard Linklater`s "Slacker"). The first two drummers were Clifford and Dave, who were later named...
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  17. StarFish
    (children`s band) `StarFish` is an American rock band for children from Maplewood, New Jersey. The band`s five members are StingRay (lead vocals and guitar); Grateful Dave (Dave Hartkern) (drums and vocals), Moose (Marc Stern) (lead guitar), Dr. Yes (Mark Asch) (keyboards and vocals) and AntF...
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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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