Found 2 items, similar to Catfish.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: catfish
catfish
n 1: flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States;
often farmed [syn:
mudcat]
2: large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong
teeth and no pelvic fins [syn:
wolffish,
wolf fish]
3: any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of
Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers
around the mouth [syn:
siluriform fish]
[also:
catfishes (pl)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Catfish
Catfish
\Cat"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A name given in the United States to various species of
siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the
bind cat (
Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (
Pilodictic oilwaris
), the stone cat (
Noturus flavus); the sea cat
(
Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to
the
wolf fish. See
Bullhrad.
[1913 Webster]