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