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单词 bird's-foot starfish
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bird's-foot starfish
1. Designating a starfish having a flattened, reddish body and five short, webbed arms, Anseropoda placenta (family Asterinidae), found in northwestern Atlantic and Mediterranean waters; esp. in bird's-foot starfish. Obsolete.Now called goose-foot starfish.
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1841 E. Forbes Hist. Brit. Starfishes 117 The Bird's-foot starfish is a very singular species. It is the thinnest and flattest of all its class.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. ix. 237 The cribella, the sun-stars..and the birds' foot sea-star (palmipes), are all represented.
1887 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (ed. 7) xviii. 235 Other groups with two-rowed tube-feet are the Oreastridæ and the Asterinidæ, the last comprising the well-known Cushion-stars..and the Birds'-foot Stars.
1922 S. N. Sedgwick Brit. Nature Bk. xii. 316 The Bird's-foot Starfish..has its rays joined together by a membrane, much like the toes of a duck's foot.
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