silurid

English Thesaurus

1. Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin (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	:	european catfish, sheatfish, silurus glanis,
definition	:	large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	electric catfish, malopterurus electricus,
definition	:	freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family siluridae, siluridae,
definition	:	Old World catfishes (noun.animal)