NOUN | animal | channel cat, channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus | freshwater food fish common throughout central United States |
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Meaning | Freshwater food fish common throughout central United States. | |
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Synonyms | channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus | |
Narrower | blue catfish, blue cat, blue channel catfish, blue channel cat | A large catfish of the Mississippi valley |
Broader | catfish, siluriform fish | Any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth |
Catalan | Ictalurus punctatus |
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