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SHEATFISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: sheatfishes   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe

Synonyms:

European catfish; sheatfish; Silurus glanis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sheatfish" is a kind of...):

silurid; silurid fish (Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin)

Holonyms ("sheatfish" is a member of...):

genus Silurus; Silurus (type genus of the Siluridae: catfishes)

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