| spade | (noun) a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot | - |
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| (noun) a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it | - |
| spadefish | (noun) deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: angelfish, Chaetodipterus faber |
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| spadefoot | (noun) a burrowing toad of the Northern Hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot | Synonyms: spadefoot toad |
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| spadeful | (noun) the quantity a shovel can hold | Synonyms: shovel, shovelful |
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| spadework | (noun) dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking | - |
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| spadix | (noun) the fleshy axis of a spike often surrounded by a spathe | - |
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