Definition for BASK'ET-FISH

BASK'ET-FISH, n.

A species of sea-star, or star-fish, of the genus Asterias, and otherwise called the Magellanic star-fish. It has five rays issuing from an angular body, and dividing into innumerable branches. These when extended form a circle of three feet diameter. [See Asterias.] – Encyc.

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