Planaria vs Starfish - What's the difference?
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* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 11, author=Henry Fountain, title=The Gene That Tells Planaria Worms Which End Is Up, work=New York Times
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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
As nouns the difference between planaria and starfish
is that planaria is plural of planarium 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.planaria
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(en-noun)- 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.