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doomsday fish

doomsday fish noun: synonym of oarfish.

Noun

doomsday fish (plural doomsday fishes)

  1. (informal) Synonym of oarfish.
    • Roughly 10ft-long specimen discovered on Encinitas beach shortly after August spotting of the ‘doomsday fish’[.]2024 November 15, Dani Anguiano, “Second oarfish, mythical harbinger of doom, found washed up in California”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    oarfish

Synonyms of doomsday fish

Forms of doomsday fish

pluraldoomsday fishes

Origin of doomsday fish

Anecdotally linked to earthquakes and other natural disasters across Asia, in particular Japan.

Questions about doomsday fish

What does doomsday fish mean?
Doomsday fish means synonym of oarfish.
What part of speech is doomsday fish?
Doomsday fish is a noun.
What is the plural of doomsday fish?
The plural of doomsday fish is doomsday fishes.

Words near doomsday fish in the dictionary

  1. Doomsday Defense
  2. doomsday device
  3. doomsday devices
  4. doomsday event
  5. doomsday events
  6. doomsday fish
  7. doomsday fishes
  8. Doomsday Glacier
  9. doomsday method
  10. doomsday plane
  11. doomsday planes

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