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mudcat

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n.1.A large catfish (Pylodictus olivaris, formerly Leptops olivaris) of the central U. S. having a flattened head and projecting jaw.
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Noun1.mudcatmudcat - flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
catfish
freshwater fish - flesh of fish from fresh water used as food
2.mudcat - large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw
flathead catfish, goujon, Pylodictus olivaris, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish
siluriform fish, catfish - any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
genus Pylodictus, Pylodictus - flathead catfishes
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He was well born, as the saying is, and that's worth as much in a man as it is in a horse, so the Widow Douglas said, and nobody ever denied that she was of the first aristocracy in our town; and pap he always said it, too, though he warn't no more quality than a mudcat himself.
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