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PADDLEFISH (paddlefishes)
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Irregular inflected form: paddlefishes
Dictionary entry overview: What does paddlefish mean?
• PADDLEFISH (noun)
The noun PADDLEFISH has 1 sense:
1. primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout
Familiarity information: PADDLEFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
duckbill; paddlefish; Polyodon spathula
Hypernyms ("paddlefish" is a kind of...):
ganoid; ganoid fish (primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering)
Holonyms ("paddlefish" is a member of...):
genus Polyodon; Polyodon (type genus of the Polyodontidae)
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