Usually means: Marine animals, radial symmetry, regenerative.
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  7. starfishes: Wiktionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (starfish)

noun:  Any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
noun:  (obsolete) Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (vulgar, slang, usually in translations of Japanese pornography) The anus.
verb:  (intransitive) To assume a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
verb:  (transitive) To form into a splayed-out shape, like that of a starfish.
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