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CATFISH
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Irregular inflected form: catfishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
Synonyms:
catfish; siluriform fish
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("catfish" is a kind of...):
malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "catfish"):
silurid; silurid fish (Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin)
bullhead; bullhead catfish (any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States)
channel cat; channel catfish; Ictalurus punctatus (freshwater food fish common throughout central United States)
flathead catfish; goujon; mudcat; Pylodictus olivaris; shovelnose catfish; spoonbill catfish (large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw)
armored catfish (South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates)
sea catfish (any of numerous marine fishes most of which are mouthbreeders; not used for food)
Holonyms ("catfish" is a member of...):
order Siluriformes; Siluriformes (an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("catfish" is a kind of...):
blennioid; blennioid fish (elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins)
Holonyms ("catfish" is a member of...):
Anarhichas; genus Anarhichas (type genus of the Anarhichadidae)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
Synonyms:
catfish; mudcat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("catfish" is a kind of...):
freshwater fish (flesh of fish from fresh water used as food)
