Definition of Serpent star

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

Exact synonyms: Brittle Star, Brittle-star
Generic synonyms: Echinoderm
Group relationships: Ophiurida, Subclass Ophiurida

Lexicographical Neighbors of Serpent Star

serous pleurisy
serous retinitis
serous synovitis
serous tunic
serovaccination
serovar
serovars
serow
serows
serozyme
serpens
serpent
serpent-tongued
serpent-worship
serpent fern
serpent star (current term)
serpent ulcer of cornea
serpentaria
serpentarius
serpented
serpentiform
serpentigenous
serpentiginous
serpentine
serpentine aneurysm
serpentinely
serpentines
serpenting
serpentinian
serpentinite

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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