spadefish

Noun

spade=fish

WORDNET DICTIONARY

spadefish(n = noun.animal) angelfish, chaetodipterus faber - deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters;

is a kind of percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

is a member of chaetodipterus, genus chaetodipterus

spadefish, n.

An American market fish (Chætodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy. [1913 Webster]