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Sheatfish

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sheat=fish

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Sheatfish has 1 sense

sheatfish(n = noun.animal) european catfish, silurus glanis - large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe; Array

is a kind of silurid, silurid fish

is a member of genus silurus, silurus

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Sheatfish, n. [Cf. dial. G. scheid, schaid, schaiden.].

A European siluroid fish (Silurus glanis) allied to the cat-fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See Siluroid. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Sheatfish, n. (pl. same or sheatfishes) a large freshwater catfish, Silurus glanis, native to European waters.

Etymology

earlier sheath-fish, prob. after G Scheid

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