| catfish | | |
| n. (food) | 1. catfish, mudcat | flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed. |
| ~ freshwater fish | flesh of fish from fresh water used as food. |
| n. (animal) | 2. catfish, wolf fish, wolffish | large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins. |
| ~ blennioid, blennioid fish | elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins. |
| ~ anarhichas, genus anarhichas | type genus of the Anarhichadidae. |
| n. (animal) | 3. catfish, siluriform fish | any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth. |
| ~ malacopterygian, soft-finned fish | any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii. |
| ~ order siluriformes, siluriformes | an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes. |
| ~ silurid, silurid fish | Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin. |
| ~ bullhead catfish, bullhead | any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States. |
| ~ channel cat, channel catfish, ictalurus punctatus | freshwater food fish common throughout central United States. |
| ~ flathead catfish, goujon, pylodictus olivaris, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish, mudcat | large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw. |
| ~ armored catfish | South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates. |
| ~ sea catfish | any of numerous marine fishes most of which are mouthbreeders; not used for food. |
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