basket fish

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

basket star

echinoderm - marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies

Euryalida, subclass Euryalida - basket stars

Astrophyton muricatum - a variety of basket star

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We caught fish using a simple bamboo basket fish trap.

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Loren Legarda, committee chairman, said the program, like the DENR's successful National Greening Program (NGP), should be launched as soon as possible since coral reefs are the food basket fish.