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UK
/ˈɔːfɪʃ/
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NOUN
- thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin
How To Use oarfish In A Sentence
- On my first dive with new digital camera housing in South Harbour at the Poor Knights Islands I encounter a striped boarfish with a long-finned boarfish.
- But, a blue marlin is also just as happy rounding up a big ball of ‘trumpetero’ or boarfish, just like a tuna or sail, and guzzles on them too.
- The Oarfish is reported to be the longest of all fishes.
- There aren't really any sea serpent accounts that describe oarfish to my knowledge, plus it now turns out that oarfishes hold their bodies VERTICALLY when swimming. Oarfish
- They may be explained, rationally, as giant turtles, giant squid, or the large sunfish or oarfish that bask on the surface of the water.
- The fish, which has since been sent to a museum where is being examined by a scientist, is called an oarfish.
- It was handed over to the marine aquarium at Macduff where staff reckoned it was either an oarfish or a dealfish.
- The oarfish, which can reach 17m long, has previously only been seen on a few occasions dying at the sea surface, or dead washed ashore. Archive 2010-02-07
- Darren, are you just referring to my vague memory about vertical oarfish, or do you know something about it too? Oarfish
- Khelaryt paused as the steward removed the cups and placed a plate before each alector, each holding a juvenile oarfish glazed with lemon-citron. Soarer's Choice