Search Result for "brittle star":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an animal resembling a starfish with fragile whiplike arms radiating from a small central disc;
[syn: brittle star, brittle-star, serpent star]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brittle star \Brit"tle star`\ (br[i^]t"t'l st[aum]r`), (Zool.) Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

brittle star n 1: an animal resembling a starfish with fragile whiplike arms radiating from a small central disc [syn: brittle star, brittle-star, serpent star]