| NOUN | animal | channel catfish, channel cat, 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 cat, 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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