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Defenition of the word catfish

    • Defenition of the word catfish

      • Any of the numerous fishes of the order or suborder Siluroidei, characterized by barbels around the mouth and the absence of scales.
      • flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
      • any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
      • large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins

    Synonyms for the word catfish

      • cuttlefish
      • mudcat
      • seawolf
      • siluriform fish
      • wolf fish
      • wolffish

    Meronymys for the word catfish

      • Anarhichas
      • genus Anarhichas
      • order Siluriformes
      • Siluriformes

    Hyponyms for the word catfish

      • armored catfish
      • bullhead
      • bullhead catfish
      • channel cat
      • channel catfish
      • flathead catfish
      • goujon
      • Ictalurus punctatus
      • mudcat
      • Pylodictus olivaris
      • sea catfish
      • shovelnose catfish
      • silurid
      • silurid fish
      • spoonbill catfish

    Hypernyms for the word catfish

      • blennioid
      • blennioid fish
      • freshwater fish
      • malacopterygian
      • soft-finned fish

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