Earthworm vs Starfish - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between earthworm and starfish

is that earthworm is a worm that lives in the ground while starfish is any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.

earthworm

English

Noun

(en noun)

A worm that lives in the ground.

A worm of the Lumbricidae family, or, more generally, of the suborder.

(figurative) A contemptible person.

(figurative) Death.

Synonyms

* (a ground-living worm) groundworm; wiggler, red worm, red wiggler (Southern US); nightwalker (New England); nightcrawler

Hyponyms

* (a ground-living worm) baitworm; fishworm ; angleworm (Northern US); fishing worm (Southern US) - fish bait

External links

* (Earthworm)

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starfish

English

(wikipedia starfish)

Noun

(en-noun)

Any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.

(vulgar, slang, usually in translations of Japanese pornography) an anus. See also chocolate starfish.

(obsolete) Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.

* 1755 , , trans. Isaac Kimbler, Explanation of the Plate of Uncommon Star Fish, Extracted from the Natural History of Norway

But the largest of the star-fish' kind is that sea monster called kruken, kraken or krabben. [...] As this enormous sea-animal in all probability may be reckoned of the polype, or of the ' star-fish , kind, it seems that the parts which are seen rising at its pleasure, and are called arms, are properly the tentacula, or feeding instruments, called horns as well as arms.

Synonyms

* (various echinoderms) sea star, asteroid