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How to pronounce “starfish”
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Pronunciation guide for starfish
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of starfish with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Surprising Power of Your Nature Photos
Is that taking photographs, noticing starfish and plants,
- Definition summary
- Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
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How to pronounce starfish
The Surprising Power of Your Nature Photos
Is that taking photographs, noticing starfish and plants,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “starfish”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Any of various echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
- (obsolete) Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
- (slang) A woman (or, less commonly, a gay man) who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lies on the back while spreading the limbs.
- (vulgar, slang, usually in translations of Japanese pornography) The anus.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
- (transitive) To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
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