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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
starfish .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The old tongue-and-groove floorboards creaked loudly under my weight as I straightened up and a little boy on the other mattress sat up, screaming something that might have been Mama, Mama in his birth tongue, staring blindly ahead, his arms flailing, starfishlike, in the air.
Last Lullaby Denise Hamilton 2004
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The old tongue-and-groove floorboards creaked loudly under my weight as I straightened up and a little boy on the other mattress sat up, screaming something that might have been Mama, Mama in his birth tongue, staring blindly ahead, his arms flailing, starfishlike, in the air.
Last Lullaby Denise Hamilton 2004
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The shape - octopuslike, starfishlike, machine - approached on thin, invisible jets.
Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998
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