spadefish in British English
(ˈspeɪdˌfɪʃ)
nounWord forms: plural -fish or -fishes
any spiny-finned food fish of the family Ephippidae, esp Chaetodipterus faber of American Atlantic coastal waters, having a deeply compressed body
spadefish in American English
(ˈspeɪdˌfɪʃ)
nounWord forms: plural ˈspadeˌfish or ˈspadeˌfishes
1.
any of a family (Ephippidae) of edible, disk-shaped percoid fishes of the Atlantic and Pacific, having sharp-spined fins
2.
paddlefish
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