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catfish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun catfish has 3 senses
- catfish(n = noun.food) mudcat - flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed; Array is a kind of freshwater fish
- catfish(n = noun.animal) wolf fish, wolffish - large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins; Array is a kind of blennioid, blennioid fish
- catfish(n = noun.animal) siluriform fish - any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth; Array is a kind of malacopterygian, soft-finned fish
is a member of anarhichas, genus anarhichas
is a member of order siluriformes, siluriformes
has particulars: silurid, silurid fish, bullhead, bullhead catfish, channel cat, channel catfish, ictalurus punctatus, flathead catfish, goujon, mudcat, pylodictus olivaris, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish, armored catfish, sea catfish
CIDE DICTIONARY
catfish, n.
A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus ); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris ), the stone cat (Noturus flavus ); the sea cat (Arius felis ), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish . See Bullhrad. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
catfish, n. any of various esp. freshwater fish, usu. having whisker-like barbels round the mouth.
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