About The Word Catfish
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Catfish
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What's The Definition Of Catfish?
[n] any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
[n] large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins [n] flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed Synonyms | Synonyms for Catfish: mudcat | siluriform fish | wolf fish | wolffish Related Terms | Find terms related to Catfish: See Also | Anarhichas | armored catfish | blennioid | blennioid fish | bullhead | channel cat | channel catfish | flathead catfish | freshwater fish | genus Anarhichas | goujon | Ictalurus punctatus | malacopterygian | mudcat | order Siluriformes | Pylodictus olivaris | sea catfish | shovelnose catfish | silurid | silurid fish | Siluriformes | soft-finned fish | spoonbill catfish Catfish In Webster's Dictionary \Cat"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
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}.
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