basket fish

noun

basket star.

Origin of basket fish

¹

First recorded in 1745–55

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How to use basket fish in a sentence

This very singular ophiuran is commonly called the basket-fish, from its resemblance to a basket when the tentacles are rolled up.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote Arnold
And so it remains to this day as the Governor of Connecticut first christened it, the Basket-fish.
Seaside Studies in Natural History | Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz

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