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Definition of Spadefish
1. Noun. Deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters.
Generic synonyms: Percoid, Percoid Fish, Percoidean
Group relationships: Chaetodipterus, Genus Chaetodipterus
Definition of Spadefish
1. n. An American market fish (Chætodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.
Definition of Spadefish
1. Noun. (zoology) Any of several marine fish of the family ''Ephippidae'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spadefish
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Medical Definition of Spadefish
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Spadefish
Literary usage of Spadefish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ichthyologia Ohiensis by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Richard Ellsworth Call (1899)
"spadefish. POLYODON. Polyodon. Differs from Sturgeon, by having a transversal
mouth with teeth, ... WESTERN spadefish. Polyodon folium. Polyodon feuille. ..."
2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"the robalo (Centropomus undecimalis'), the uku (Aprion vires- cens) of Hawaii,
the spadefish ... spadefish ..."
3. Adventure Guide Honduras & the Bay Islands by Maria Fiallos (2006)
"... whips and gorgonians where huge schools of horse-eye jacks, groupers, yellowtail
snappers, spadefish, Creole wrasse, Atlantic spadefish, ..."
4. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of ChangeTech (1994)
"The totals obtained by all observers are averaged for a mean species count of
territorial and schooling fish, such as black sea bass, Atlantic spadefish, ..."
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