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Catfish

Catfish Meaning & Definition
Catfish Definition And Meaning

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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