silurid fish

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

silurid fish - Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin silurid siluriform fish, catfish - any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth family Siluridae, Siluridae - Old World catfishes European catfish, sheatfish, Silurus glanis - large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe electric catfish, Malopterurus electricus - freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ