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Noun catfish has 3 senses
  1. catfish, mudcat - flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
    --1 is a kind of freshwater fish
  2. wolffish, wolf fish, catfish - large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
    --2 is a kind of blennioid fish, blennioid
    --2 is a member of Anarhichas, genus Anarhichas
  3. catfish, siluriform fish - any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
    --3 is a kind of soft-finned fish, malacopterygian
    --3 is a member of Siluriformes, order Siluriformes
    --3 has particulars:
     silurid, silurid fish; bullhead; channel catfish, channel cat, Ictalurus punctatus; flathead catfish, mudcat, goujon, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish, Pylodictus olivaris; armored catfish; sea catfish
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