catfish

English Thesaurus

1. any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	malacopterygian, soft-finned fish,
definition	:	any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	silurid, silurid fish,
definition	:	Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	bullhead, bullhead catfish,
definition	:	any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	channel cat, channel catfish, ictalurus punctatus,
definition	:	freshwater food fish common throughout central United States (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	flathead catfish, goujon, mudcat, pylodictus olivaris, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish,
definition	:	large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	armored catfish,
definition	:	South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	sea catfish,
definition	:	any of numerous marine fishes most of which are mouthbreeders; not used for food (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	order siluriformes, siluriformes,
definition	:	an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes (noun.animal)

2. large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	blennioid, blennioid fish,
definition	:	elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	anarhichas, genus anarhichas,
definition	:	type genus of the Anarhichadidae (noun.animal)

3. flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed (noun.food)

hypernym	:	freshwater fish,
definition	:	flesh of fish from fresh water used as food (noun.food)