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- noun Plural form of
starfish .
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Examples
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The final battle, although it seems rather misleading to describe it as such, involves wobbly Satan throwing rubber starfishes at Thor, which he then has to pretend are attacking him.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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If you rip a starfish apart, you get two starfishes. jen don
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Is it just me or do those practice flowers look like chocolate starfishes?
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Sea urchins Arbacia dufresnii are abundant in the marine area, as are whelks Argobuccinun sp., chitons, starfishes, sea anemones, bryzoans, barnacles, slipper limpets, nudibranchs and sponges.
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Yoa Ogee: Yes, the starfishes on the ground play much better than me.
Yoa Ogee's "high tech life forms" for peace... and smiles Bettina Tizzy 2008
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I like dis cap, i haz deh liddul starfishes on it.
teleport machine need work - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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For example, when discussing the unfortunate Boohbah phenomenon, he has this to say: "Since Boohbah is essentially an exercise show for young children, it's perhaps unfortunate that the show's five leading aliens resemble the end of the evolutionary line for a race of rotund starfishes who mated once too often with unspecified but highly rubberized sex toys".
Archive 2006-04-01 fusenumber8 2006
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Mechnikov observed, in the larvae of starfishes, mobile cells which might, he thought, serve as part of the defences of these organisms and, to test this idea, he introduced into them small thorns from a tangerine tree which had been prepared as a
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While their father was busy, the twins clambered over the rocks, hunting for starfishes and sea-urchins, and Gerda picked a bouquet of bright blossoms for their table on the boat.
Gerda in Sweden Etta Blaisdell McDonald
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We drew prancing starfishes; frogs in mortal combat; hydra-headed worms; stately crawfishes, standing on their tails, bearing aloft umbrellas; and grotesque fishes with gaping mouths and staring eyes.
Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction Lane Cooper
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