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English noun: catfish | |||
| 1. | catfish (food) flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed | ||
| Synonyms | mudcat | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | freshwater fish | ||
| 2. | catfish (animal) large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins | ||
| Synonyms | wolf fish, wolffish | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | blennioid, blennioid fish | ||
| Member meronym | Anarhichas, genus Anarhichas | ||
| 3. | catfish (animal) any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth | ||
| Synonyms | siluriform fish | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | malacopterygian, soft-finned fish | ||
| 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 | ||
| Member meronym | order Siluriformes, Siluriformes | ||
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