Talk:sea star

sea star
Synonym = asteroid? Also at. Leasnam (talk) 23:14, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
 * No longer also at seastar; since that's labeled nonstandard we should just keep all info together at sea star. —Angr 10:13, 27 May 2013 (UTC)


 * If the original question is whether asteroid is a legitimate synonym of sea star, then yes it is. The class to which sea stars belong is Asteroidea, which would make a member of that class an (see definition #3). --EncycloPetey (talk) 06:58, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Closed as out of scope: no sense of "sea star" is requested for verification. As to whether "asteroid" has a sense of "sea star", that seems very likely given the number of dicts that have the sense. In case of doubt, put rfv-sense to entry asteroid on the sense of "(zoology) Any member of the taxonomic class Asteroidea; a starfish". --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:29, 21 August 2013 (UTC)