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flying spaghetti monster

flying spaghetti monster noun: a bathypelagic species of siphonophore (Bathyphysa conifera), found in the northern Atlantic Ocean and off the coast of Southwestern Africa and California.

flying spaghetti monster: a bathypelagic species of siphonophore (Bathyphysa conifera), found in the northern Atlantic Ocean...
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Noun

flying spaghetti monster (plural flying spaghetti monsters)

  1. A bathypelagic species of siphonophore (Bathyphysa conifera), found in the northern Atlantic Ocean and off the coast of Southwestern Africa and California.

Proper noun capitalized: Flying Spaghetti Monster

the Flying Spaghetti Monster

  1. (humorous) A deity consisting of spaghetti and meatballs, the creator of the universe according to the religion of Pastafarianism.
    • I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster.2005 January, Bobby Henderson, “Open Letter To Kansas School Board”, in spaghettimonster.org, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023
    • Is the super-intelligent, super-popular god known as the Flying Spaghetti Monster any match for the prophets of intelligent design?2005 August 29, Sarah Boxer, “But Is There Intelligent Spaghetti Out There?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2019, retrieved 28 Oct 2011
    Synonyms:
    FSM

Synonyms of flying spaghetti monster

Forms of flying spaghetti monster

pluralflying spaghetti monsters

Origin of flying spaghetti monster

Named after the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a satirical deity made of spaghetti, by the oil workers who first saw this animal in 2015.

Words formed from flying spaghetti monster

Questions about flying spaghetti monster

What does flying spaghetti monster mean?
Flying spaghetti monster means a bathypelagic species of siphonophore (Bathyphysa conifera), found in the northern Atlantic Ocean and off the coast of Southwestern Africa and California.
What part of speech is flying spaghetti monster?
Flying spaghetti monster can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of flying spaghetti monster?
The plural of flying spaghetti monster is flying spaghetti monsters.

Words near flying spaghetti monster in the dictionary

  1. flying shot
  2. flying shots
  3. flying snake
  4. flying snakes
  5. flying solo
  6. flying spaghetti monster
  7. Flying Spaghetti Monsterism
  8. flying sport
  9. flying sports
  10. flying squad
  11. flying squads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flying spaghetti monster (page history and authors); Flying Spaghetti Monster (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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