oarfish meaning
Noun: oarfish 'or`fish
- Thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin
- king of the herring, ribbonfish, Regalecus glesne
Derived forms: oarfishes
Type of: malacopterygian, soft-finned fish
Part of: genus Regalecus, Reglaecus
Encyclopedia: Oarfish
Examples
More: Next- the fish, which has since been sent to a museum where it is being examined by a scientist, is called an oarfish
- One of his Oarfish photographs was published in National Geographic Magazine in December 1996.
- In 1996 he was the first to photograph a living Oarfish, an animal that inspired sea serpent legends.
- A man walking his dog discovered the oarfish, cut it up with a saw and delivered it to the center.
- Like other members of its order, the oarfish has a small yet highly protrusible oblique mouth with no visible guanine.