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n. Any of numerous scaleless, chiefly freshwater fishes of the order Siluriformes, characteristically having whiskerlike barbels extending from the upper jaw. Also called regionally bullhead, mud cat.

n. Any fish of the order Siluriformes, that are mainly found in freshwater, are without scales, and have barbels like whiskers around the mouth.

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n. A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See bullhrad.

n. A name of the wolf-fish, Anarrhichas lupus, from its dentition and its ferocity when caught. See wolf-fish.

n. A name generally given in the United States to species of the family Siluridæ, which when taken out of the water emit a sound like the purring of a cat.

n. A name given in some parts of England to the weever, Trachinus draco.

n. A local English name of the scyllioid shark, Scyllium catulus.

n. A local English name of the torsk, Brosmius brosme.

n. A name in New Zealand for fishes of the family Uranoscopidæ, especially the Ichthyscopus monopterygius.

n. In Victoria and New South Wales, a fresh-water fish, Copidoglanis tandanus.

n. large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins

n. any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth

n. flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed

"Much of that 'catfish' in Mississippi is secretly Basa fish from China these days, especially on the buffets at the casinos along the Gulf Coast, were they don't have to call it catfish (which they aren't supposed to do) but just let people assume it is."

blennioid fish    blennioid    freshwater fish   

electric catfish    bermuda catfish   

catfishes    wolf fish    bullhrad   

whale catfish    channel catfish    airbreathing catfish   

flatfish   

pickerel    bream    mackerel    shad    haddock    trout    smelt    barbel    pike    terrapin