The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word STARFISHES
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What does STARFISHES mean?
STARFISHES noun- Any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach.
- Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
- A woman who reluctantly takes part in sexual intercourse, and lays on her back while spreading her limbs.
- (usually in translations of Japanese pornography) The anus.