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SPADEFISH (spadefishes)
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Irregular inflected form: spadefishes
Dictionary entry overview: What does spadefish mean?
• SPADEFISH (noun)
The noun SPADEFISH has 1 sense:
1. deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters
Familiarity information: SPADEFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
angelfish; Chaetodipterus faber; spadefish
Hypernyms ("spadefish" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Holonyms ("spadefish" is a member of...):
Chaetodipterus; genus Chaetodipterus (a genus of Ephippidae)
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