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Basket fish   /bˈæskət fɪʃ/   Listen
Basket fish

noun
1.
Any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc.  Synonym: basket star.





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"Basket fish" Quotes from Famous Books



... that he was nearing a settlement, was the appearance of what looked like sections of rude wicker fencing, set up here and there in the river and frozen fast in the ice. High on the bank lay one of the long cornucopia-shaped basket fish-traps, and presently he caught sight of something in the bleak Arctic landscape that made his heart jump, something that to Florida ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)


Words linked to "Basket fish" :   Astrophyton muricatum, Euryalida, subclass Euryalida, echinoderm


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