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ˈpaddle-fish
[f. paddle n.1 + fish n.1]
A large freshwater fish of the family Polyodontidæ, which includes the two genera Polyodon and Psephurus, characterized by a projection resembling a paddle attached to the upper part of its head.
[1686tr. Relation Invasion Florida xxiv. 121 We caught another sort of fish also, called Pexe-palla, the Palat-fish; the head of it is covered with a kind of an elbow-hood, the upper point whereof is shaped like a Palet or Lingel.] 1807C. W. Janson Stranger in America 191 The paddle-fish..is four feet and four inches in length. The snout resembles in shape the paddle used by Indians in crossing rivers. 1892J. A. Thomson Outl. Zool. 430 (Ganoidei) The paddle-fish or spoon-bill of the Mississippi. 1908Century Mag. July 457/1 In Louisiana it [sc. Polyodon spatula] is known as billfish, billdom, and paddlefish. 1948Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 15 May 26/2 They were assailed by questions about the Paddlefish, the Brindled Stonecat, or the Tessellated Darter. 1962K. F. Lagler et al. Ichthyol. iv. 110 Examples of partly scaled fishes include the paddlefish (Polyodon)..that inhabits streams in Central North America and has also a near-relative, the fresh⁓water swordbill, Psephurus, in China. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 16 June 1-C/1 The paddlefish is a living fossil like the Coelacanth..and is found only in two places on earth, the Mississippi River and its tributaries and the Yangtze drainage in China.
2. = oar-fish (s.v. oar n. 6).
1953Sun (Baltimore) 18 Sept. 11/5 One of the world's rarities, an oarfish, or paddle fish, believed to be the origin of sailors' tales of sea serpents, has been caught off Sydney Heads. |