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PADDLEFISH
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Irregular inflected form: paddlefishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout
Synonyms:
duckbill; paddlefish; Polyodon spathula
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("paddlefish" is a kind of...):
ganoid; ganoid fish (primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering)
Holonyms ("paddlefish" is a member of...):
genus Polyodon; Polyodon (type genus of the Polyodontidae)
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