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spadefish

Definition of spadefish

noun (plural same or spadefishes)

  • a marine fish with an almost disc-shaped body. It lives in tropical inshore waters, where it often forms schools.
    • Chaetodipterus and other genera, family Ephippidae: several species, including the western Atlantic C. faber

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