SACRED FISH


Meaning of SACRED FISH in English

noun

: any of several fishes of the genus Mormyrus (as M. oxyrhynchus ) that inhabit the river Nile and that were held in veneration by the ancient Egyptians because they were thought to have devoured a part of the body of the god Osiris

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