sea star
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sea star
First recorded in 1560–70
Example Sentences
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And there's a deep-sea hermit crab, living not inside a shell, but a sea star the team can't immediately identify.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
On California’s North Coast, where other urchin nemeses — like otters, spiny lobsters and sheephead — are lacking, 96% of the region’s kelp forests vanished in the decade following the sea star collapse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
RangerBot can track down and kill a certain kind of sea star that is damaging coral reefs.
From NewsForKids.net ● Apr. 3, 2024
In this leg of the project, Ms. Torres and her team wanted to see if they could fertilize sea star eggs using both fresh and frozen sperm.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
She reached over with a quick hand, grabbed the sea star, and tossed it out into the water.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
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