Brittle

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 16

brit′l, adj. apt to break: easily broken: frail.— ns. Britt′lene ; Britt′le-stars , or Sand-stars , one of the cla es of Echinoderm at a, including forms not far removed from starfishes. [A.S. bréotan , to break.]