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    PADDLEFISH

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    Irregular inflected form: paddlefishes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snoutplay

    Synonyms:

    duckbill; paddlefish; Polyodon spathula

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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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