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# paddlefish

«paddlefish» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large freshwater fish with a long, flat, paddle-shaped…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a paddlefish, paddlefish)

### meaning for a pupil

A paddlefish is a large freshwater fish with a long, flat, paddle-shaped snout, found in the rivers of the USA. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddlefish/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Met in science lessons about river animals and endangered species; very old fish families.

### examples

- The paddlefish has a long snout like a paddle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddlefish/#x1)
- Paddlefish live in the Mississippi River. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddlefish/#x2)
- Paddlefish eat tiny animals called plankton. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddlefish/#x3)
- The paddlefish is an ancient kind of fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddlefish/#x4)
- Its snout helps the paddlefish sense food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddlefish/#x5)
- The Chinese paddlefish is now extinct. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddlefish/#x6)

### note

Plural: paddlefish (the same) or paddlefishes. One word. The snout is called a «rostrum».

### In the corpora

- [Nets, electric fishing and dams did the rest, and the giant Chinese paddlefish was lost too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «paddlefish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paddlefish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.