asterias

See also: Asterias

English

Noun

asterias (plural asteriases)

  1. A sea star.
    • 1828, The Westminster Review, volume 9, page 179:
      […] which exhibits the under surface of an asterias; a shows the nervous circle around the mouth; b the smaller; c the central larger nervous branches to the rays of the body.
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