1. an animal resembling a starfish with fragile whiplike arms radiating from a small central disc; [syn: brittle star, brittle-star, serpent star]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
brittle-star
n 1: an animal resembling a starfish with fragile whiplike arms
radiating from a small central disc [syn: brittle star,
brittle-star, serpent star]