HyperDic: siluriform_fish

English > 1 sense of the expression siluriform fish:
NOUNanimalsiluriform fish, catfishany of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
English > siluriform fish: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
MeaningAny of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
Synonymcatfish
Member ofSiluriformes, order SiluriformesAn order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes
Narrowerarmored catfishSouth American catfish having the body covered with bony plates
bullhead, bullhead catfishAny of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States
channel catfish, channel cat, Ictalurus punctatusFreshwater food fish common throughout central United States
flathead catfish, mudcat, goujon, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish, Pylodictus olivarislarge catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw
sea catfishAny of numerous marine fishes most of which are mouthbreeders
silurid, silurid fishOld World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin
Broadersoft-finned fish, malacopterygianAny fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
Spanishbagre, barbo, siluriforme, siluriformes, siluro
Catalansiluriforme, silur

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