Home › Words › A › asteroideanasteroideanasteroidean means any starfish of the class Asteroidea.EtymologyFrom taxonomic name Asteroidea + -an.nounAny starfish of the class Asteroideae.g.“Astaxanthin (ATX), one of the most common carotenoids, is widely distributed in the red pigment of shrimp, salmon, crab and asteroidean [ 1, 2 ].” — 2015 July 14, Li Zhang, Handong Wang, Orazio Taglialatela-Scafati, “Multiple Mechanisms of Anti-Cancer Effects Exerted by Astaxanthin”, in Marine Drugs, volume 13, →DOI:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.asteroidian 74% match — Of or relating to the Asteroidea. vs asteroidean →asteriid 74% match — Any member of the family Asteriidae of sea stars. vs asteroidean →pterasterid 73% match — Any sea star of the family Pterasteridae vs asteroidean →asterozoan 71% match — Any animal in the echinoderm subphylum Asterozoa, which includes the brittle stars, basket stars and starfish vs asteroidean →edrioasteroid 71% match — Any of class Edrioasteroidea of echinoderms, vs asteroidean →porcellanasterid 70% match — Any sea star of the family Porcellanasteridae vs asteroidean →ophiuroidean 70% match — Any brittle star of the class Ophiuroidea vs asteroidean →goniasterid 70% match — Any starfish in the family Goniasteridae vs asteroidean →