ictalurus punctatus

English Thesaurus

1. freshwater food fish common throughout central United States (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	catfish, siluriform fish,
definition	:	any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	blue cat, blue catfish, blue channel cat, blue channel catfish,
definition	:	a large catfish of the Mississippi valley (noun.animal)