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spade·fish
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/
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noun,
plural
(
especially collectively
)
spade·fish,
(
especially referring to two or more kinds or species
)
spade·fish·es.
a deep-bodied marine fish of the genus
Chaetodipterus,
especially
C. faber,
of Atlantic coastal waters of North America.
Origin:
1695–1705;
probably
spade
2
+
fish
,
in allusion to its shape
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spadefish
(ˈspeɪdˌfɪʃ)
—
n
,
pl
-fish
,
-fishes
any spiny-finned food fish of the family
Ephippidae,
esp
Chaetodipterus faber
of American Atlantic coastal waters, having a deeply compressed body
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