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Spadefish

Spadefish \Spade"fish`\ (sp[=a]d"f[i^]sh`), n. (Zo["o]l.) An American market fish ( Ch[ae]todipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.

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spadefish

n. 1 (context zoology English) Any of several marine fish of the family ''(taxlink Ephippidae family noshow=1)'' 2 ''Polyodon spathula''

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spadefish

  1. n. deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters [syn: angelfish, Chaetodipterus faber]

  2. [also: spadefishes (pl)]

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Ben Adams watched the same scene played out for the Spadefish, the Archerfish, the Whale, the Barracuda, the Pargo, the Sturgeon and the Piranha.

Picuda, Redfish and Spadefish, on 8 September, east of Formosa, sank three or four merchant ships out of a single convoy.