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SPADEFISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: spadefishes   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters

Synonyms:

angelfish; Chaetodipterus faber; spadefish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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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