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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of the family Astrophytidæ, containing the gorgon's-head, basket-fish, or sea-basket, Astrophyton scutatum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of ophiurans having the arms much branched.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The giant
basket star , an earlyMesozoic invertebrate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun includes many of the basket stars
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