English noun: siluriform fish |
1. | siluriform fish (animal) any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth |
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| Synonyms | catfish |
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| Broader (hypernym) | malacopterygian, soft-finned fish |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | armored catfish, bullhead, bullhead catfish, channel cat, channel catfish, flathead catfish, goujon, Ictalurus punctatus, mudcat, Pylodictus olivaris, sea catfish, shovelnose catfish, silurid, silurid fish, spoonbill catfish |
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| Member meronym | order Siluriformes, Siluriformes |
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