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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various marine echinoderms of the order Euryalida, having slender, branching, interlaced arms.
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- noun Any of a
suborder ofbrittle stars , mostly with many-branched arms, that live in deep-sea habitats.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc
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