spadefishes

Variant of spadefish

spadefish definition

spade·fish (spād′fis̸h′)

noun pl. spadefish -·fish′, spadefishes -·fish′es

  1. any of a family (Ephippidae) of edible, disk-shaped percoid fishes of the Atlantic and Pacific, having sharp-spined fins
  2. paddlefish

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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