Starfish vs. Octopus

Starfishnoun

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.

Starfishnoun

(obsolete) Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.

Starfishnoun

(slang) A woman who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lays on her back while spreading her limbs.

Starfishnoun

an anus. See also chocolate starfish.

Starfishverb

(intransitive) To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.

Starfishverb

(transitive) To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.

Starfishnoun

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 disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid.

Starfishnoun

The dollar fish, or butterfish.

Starfishnoun

echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk

Starfishnoun

a marine echinoderm (invertebrate) with five or more radiating arms. The undersides of the arms bear tube feet for locomotion and, in predatory species, for opening the shells of molluscs.

Starfish

Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea. Common usage frequently finds these names being also applied to ophiuroids, which are correctly referred to as brittle stars or basket stars.

Octopusnoun

Any of several marine molluscs/mollusks, of the family Octopodidae, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid or cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.

Octopusnoun

(uncountable) The flesh of these marine molluscs eaten as food.

Octopusnoun

An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre.

Octopusnoun

A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See Devilfish.

Octopusnoun

Any member of the genus Octopus.

Octopusnoun

Something resembling an octopus in having numerous controlling arms or branches that reach widely and influence many activities; - used mostly of organizations, such as diversified corporations.

Octopusnoun

tentacles of octopus prepared as food

Octopusnoun

bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles

Octopus

Octopus (pl. octopuses, see below for variants) are soft-bodied, eight-limbed molluscs of the order Octopoda (, ok-TOP-ə-də).