noun
Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin
• Syn: ↑silurid
• Hypernyms: ↑catfish, ↑siluriform fish
• Hyponyms: ↑European catfish, ↑sheatfish, ↑Silurus glanis, ↑electric catfish, ↑Malopterurus electricus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Siluridae, ↑family Siluridae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.