catfish

cat·fish  (ktfsh)

n. pl. catfish or cat·fish·es

Any of numerous scaleless, chiefly freshwater fishes of the order Siluriformes, characteristically having whiskerlike barbels extending from the upper jaw. Also called regionally bullhead, mud cat.

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catfish [ˈkætˌfɪʃ]

n pl -fish, -fishes

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of numerous mainly freshwater teleost fishes having whisker-like barbels around the mouth, esp the silurids of Europe and Asia and the horned pouts of North America

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for wolffish

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	catfish - flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed mudcat freshwater fish - flesh of fish from fresh water used as food
	2.	catfish - large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins wolf fish, wolffish blennioid, blennioid fish - elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins Anarhichas, genus Anarhichas - type genus of the Anarhichadidae
	3.	catfish - any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth siluriform fish malacopterygian, soft-finned fish - any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii order Siluriformes, Siluriformes - an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes silurid, silurid fish - Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin bullhead catfish, bullhead - any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States channel cat, channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus - freshwater food fish common throughout central United States flathead catfish, goujon, Pylodictus olivaris, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish, mudcat - large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw armored catfish - South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates sea catfish - any of numerous marine fishes most of which are mouthbreeders; not used for food

Translations

catfish [ˈkætfɪʃ] N (catfish or catfishes (pl)) → siluro m, bagre m

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catfish [ˈkætfɪʃ] n → poisson-chat m
cat flap n → chatière f
cat food n → nourriture f pour chats

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catfish, catgut cat