[CROSS- 3 b.] A starfish of the genus Uraster; the common 5-fingered star-fish.
1805. Forsyth, Beauties Scotl., I. 459. The corse fish prey on oysters, and likewise on muscles.
1862. Ansted, Channel Isl., II. ix. (ed. 2), 237. The cross-fish … the cribella, the sun-stars … are all represented.
