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OARFISH (oarfishes)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oarfish mean? 

OARFISH (noun)
  The noun OARFISH has 1 sense:

1. thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal finplay

  Familiarity information: OARFISH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OARFISH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

king of the herring; oarfish; Regalecus glesne; ribbonfish

Hypernyms ("oarfish" is a kind of...):

malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)

Holonyms ("oarfish" is a member of...):

genus Regalecus; Reglaecus (type genus of the Regalecidae)


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