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Definition of Serpent star

1. Noun. An animal resembling a starfish with fragile whiplike arms radiating from a small central disc.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Serpent Star

Literary usage of Serpent star

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Animal Life of Malaysia by John Franklin Daniel (1908)
"serpent star eyes are sometimes red; sometimes they are transparent. The starfish can not see far with such small eyes but it has no need of better ones. ..."

2. Elements of Zoölogy: A Textbook by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"... from O 6g2 the true Star-fishes, which have the disk or central portion comparatively large, and gradually merging into the arms. Serpent-Star ..."

3. Elements of Zoölogy: A Text-book by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"... from 682 the true Star-fishes, which have the disk or central portion comparatively large, and gradually merging into the arms. Serpent-Star ..."

4. The Standard Natural History by John Sterling Kingsley, Frederich Anton Heller von Hellwald, Elliott Coues (1884)
"This arrangement seems very different from the solidly plated arm of a serpent-star, with its enclosed row of vertebral ossicles, and its tentacle-like feet ..."

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