Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several marine food and game fishes of the family Ephippidae, especially Chaetodipterus faber of warm western Atlantic coastal waters, having a deep, laterally compressed body with a short snout.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Chætodipterus faber: same as
moonfish . Seeangel-fish , 3, and cut underChætodipterus . - noun Same as
paddle-fish .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An American market fish (
Chætodipterus faber ) common on the southern coasts; -- called alsoangel fish ,moonfish , andporgy .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of several
marine fish of the family Ephippidae
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Summer brings a wide range of inshore fishing to the area, with species such as spadefish, cobia, sheepshead and Spanish mackerel being caught.
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Summer brings a wide range of inshore fishing to the area, with species such as spadefish, cobia, sheepshead and Spanish mackerel being caught.
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Summer brings a wide range of inshore fishing to the area, with species such as spadefish, cobia, sheepshead and Spanish mackerel being caught.
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I've caught gar when the bass wouldn't bite (especially in the middle of the day) and in the salt I've caught spadefish off a little inshore wreck and they are fine eating, if a little hard to clean.
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I've caught gar when the bass wouldn't bite (especially in the middle of the day) and in the salt I've caught spadefish off a little inshore wreck and they are fine eating, if a little hard to clean.
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He said he has seen striped bass at the reef, as well as spadefish, which are typically found in Virginia, and black sea bass, which are new to the area.
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He said he has seen striped bass at the reef, as well as spadefish, which are typically found in Virginia, and black sea bass, which are new to the area.
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He said he has seen striped bass at the reef, as well as spadefish, which are typically found in Virginia, and black sea bass, which are new to the area.
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The coastal waters of Virginia Beach and the lower Chesapeake Bay are within the northern range of many south-Atlantic species-including spotted seatrout, red drum, black drum, spadefish, cobia, Spanish mackerel, king mackerel, amberjack, jack crevalle, and even tarpon.
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I hrough the crisp linen, paintings, angled mirrors, and fleurs of Morton's, we maneuver to our table like hunted fish in the sea-spadefish and amberjacks, being shot with the argon laser who-are-you? stares of the Industry.
Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992
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