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ASTROPHYTON MURICATUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Astrophyton muricatum mean? 

ASTROPHYTON MURICATUM (noun)
  The noun ASTROPHYTON MURICATUM has 1 sense:

1. a variety of basket starplay

  Familiarity information: ASTROPHYTON MURICATUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ASTROPHYTON MURICATUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A variety of basket star

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Astrophyton muricatum" is a kind of...):

basket fish; basket star (any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc)

Holonyms ("Astrophyton muricatum" is a member of...):

Astrophyton; genus Astrophyton (includes many of the basket stars)


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