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Definition of Basket star
1. Noun. Any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc.
Generic synonyms: Echinoderm
Group relationships: Euryalida, Subclass Euryalida
Specialized synonyms: Astrophyton Muricatum
Definition of Basket star
1. Noun. Any of a suborder of brittle stars, mostly with many-branched arms, that live in deep-sea habitats. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basket Star
Literary usage of Basket star
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Provincetown Book by Nancy W Paine Smith (1922)
"The name "Basket-star" was given by John Winthrop, Governor of Connecticut, who
sent one to London in 1670. One of its modes of feeding is to raise itself ..."
2. Household Elegancies: Suggestions in Household Art and Tasteful Home Decorations by Henry T. Williams, C. S. Jones (1877)
"This flower will be found pretty for training around the handle, and over the
edge of the basket. STAR-FLOWER. This is another spring beauty; its long, ..."
3. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1878)
"Fisherman's basket, star fish, XII. 644, 1 b. Fishery question, between the
British government and the United States, I. 89, ..."
4. Zoology: Descriptive and Practical by Buel Preston Colton (1903)
"In some ophiuroids the arms are branched as in the common basket star, whose arms
are many times branched, and become so inrolled as to give the name ..."
5. Elements of Biology: A Practical Text-book Correlating Botany, Zoology, and by George William Hunter (1907)
"Another deep-sea form is the basket star, a much-branched, five-armed form.
Others are the brittle stars, so called from their habit of easting off their ..."
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