English > siluriform fish: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth. |
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| Synonym | catfish |
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| Member of | Siluriformes, order Siluriformes | An order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes |
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| Narrower | armored catfish | South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates |
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| bullhead, bullhead catfish | Any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States |
| channel catfish, channel cat, Ictalurus punctatus | Freshwater food fish common throughout central United States |
| flathead catfish, mudcat, goujon, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish, Pylodictus olivaris | large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw |
| sea catfish | Any of numerous marine fishes most of which are mouthbreeders |
| silurid, silurid fish | Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin |
| Broader | soft-finned fish, malacopterygian | Any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii |
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| Spanish | bagre, barbo, siluriforme, siluriformes, siluro |
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| Catalan | siluriforme, silur |
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