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href="/wiki/File:Giant_Oarfish.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Giant_Oarfish.jpg/220px-Giant_Oarfish.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="78" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Giant_Oarfish.jpg/330px-Giant_Oarfish.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Giant_Oarfish.jpg/440px-Giant_Oarfish.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1716" data-file-height="609" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Regalecus_glesne" title="Regalecus glesne">Regalecus glesne</a></i></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology">Etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=oarfish&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From <i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/oar#English" title="oar">oar</a></i> +‎ <i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/fish#English" title="fish">fish</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=oarfish&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">oarfish</strong> (<i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en p-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/oarfishes#English" title="oarfishes">oarfishes</a></b> <i>or</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en p-form-of" lang="en"><strong class="selflink">oarfish</strong></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li>A large, greatly elongated, type of fish of the family <span class="biota"><a href="/wiki/Regalecidae#Translingual" title="Regalecidae">Regalecidae</a></span>. <dl><dd><span class="nyms synonym"><span class="defdate">Synonym:</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/doomsday_fish#English" title="doomsday fish">doomsday fish</a></span></span></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><b>2024</b> November 15, Dani Anguiano, “Second oarfish, mythical harbinger of doom, found washed up in California”, in <cite>The Guardian</cite>‎<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/15/oarfish-california">[1]</a></sup>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0261-3077">→ISSN</a></small>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">For the second time this year an <b>oarfish</b>, a rarely seen deep sea fish that has historically been considered a harbinger of doom, washed up on the California coastline.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Derived_terms">Derived terms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=oarfish&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Derived terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/giant_oarfish#English" title="giant oarfish">giant oarfish</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Translations">Translations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=oarfish&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-fish_of_the_family_Regalecidae"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">fish of the family Regalecidae</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="fish of the family Regalecidae"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81584270">.mw-parser-output .translations{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .translations-cell{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-lightyellow,#FFFFe0);vertical-align:top;text-align:left}</style> <ul><li>Bulgarian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="bg"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B0-%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%BE&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="риба-гребло (page does not exist)">риба-гребло</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="bg-Latn" class="tr Latn">riba-greblo</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Cyrl" lang="bg"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D1%85%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="гигантска херинга (page does not exist)">гигантска херинга</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="bg-Latn" class="tr Latn">gigantska heringa</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Danish: <span class="Latn" lang="da"><a href="/wiki/sildekonge#Danish" title="sildekonge">sildekonge</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="common gender">c</abbr></span></li> <li>Finnish: <span class="Latn" lang="fi"><a href="/wiki/airokala#Finnish" title="airokala">airokala</a></span></li> <li>German: <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Riemenfisch#German" title="Riemenfisch">Riemenfisch</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Riemenfisch" class="extiw" title="de:Riemenfisch">(de)</a></span> <span class="gender"><abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="de"><a 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href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Regalecidae" title="wikispecies:Regalecidae"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Wikispecies-logo.svg/15px-Wikispecies-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Wikispecies-logo.svg/23px-Wikispecies-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Wikispecies-logo.svg/30px-Wikispecies-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="941" data-file-height="1103" /></a></span> <b class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Regalecidae" class="extiw" title="wikispecies:Regalecidae">Regalecidae</a></b> on Wikispecies.<span class="interProject"><a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Regalecidae" class="extiw" title="wikispecies:Regalecidae">Wikispecies </a></span></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Regalecidae" 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