catfish

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noun

1. flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States;
often farmed
• Syn:
mudcat
• Hypernyms:
freshwater fish
2. large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
• Syn:
wolffish, wolf fish
• Hypernyms:
blennioid fish, blennioid
• Member Holonyms:
Anarhichas, genus Anarhichas
3. any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
• Syn:
siluriform fish
• Hypernyms:
soft-finned fish, malacopterygian
• Hyponyms:
silurid, silurid fish, bullhead, bullhead catfish, channel catfish,
channel cat, Ictalurus punctatus, flathead catfish, mudcat, goujon, shovelnose catfish,
spoonbill catfish, Pylodictus olivaris, armored catfish, sea catfish
• Member Holonyms:
Siluriformes, order Siluriformes