noun
any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
• Syn: ↑catfish
• Hypernyms: ↑soft-finned fish, ↑malacopterygian
• Hyponyms:
↑silurid, ↑silurid fish, ↑bullhead, ↑bullhead catfish, ↑channel catfish, ↑channel cat, ↑Ictalurus punctatus, ↑flathead catfish, ↑mudcat, ↑goujon, ↑shovelnose catfish, ↑spoonbill catfish, ↑Pylodictus olivaris, ↑armored catfish, ↑sea catfish
• Member Holonyms: ↑Siluriformes, ↑order Siluriformes
Useful english dictionary. 2012.