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basket star

Any of various marine organisms of the class Ophiuroidea, related to the starfishes and having slender, branching, interlaced arms. Also called basket fish.

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basket star - any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc

basket fish

echinoderm - marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies

Euryalida, subclass Euryalida - basket stars

Astrophyton muricatum - a variety of basket star

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