CATFISH as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
   Synonym(s)
   • siluriform fish (what does siluriform fish mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) catfish is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • soft-finned fish (what does soft-finned fish mean?)
   • malacopterygian (what does malacopterygian mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • silurid (what does silurid mean?)
   • silurid fish (what does silurid fish mean?)
   • bullhead (what does bullhead mean?)
   • channel catfish (what does channel catfish mean?)
   • channel cat (what does channel cat mean?)
   • Ictalurus punctatus (what does Ictalurus punctatus mean?)
   • flathead catfish (what does flathead catfish mean?)
   • mudcat (what does mudcat mean?)
   • goujon (what does goujon mean?)
   • shovelnose catfish (what does shovelnose catfish mean?)
   • spoonbill catfish (what does spoonbill catfish mean?)
   • Pylodictus olivaris (what does Pylodictus olivaris mean?)
   • armored catfish (what does armored catfish mean?)
   • sea catfish (what does sea catfish mean?)
2. Meaning
   • large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
   Synonym(s)
   • wolffish (what does wolffish mean?)
   • wolf fish (what does wolf fish mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) catfish is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • blennioid fish (what does blennioid fish mean?)
   • blennioid (what does blennioid mean?)
3. Meaning
   • flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States
   • often farmed
   Synonym(s)
   • mudcat (what does mudcat mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) catfish is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • freshwater fish (what does freshwater fish mean?)