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1. Flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
   - mudcat
    
2. Large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
   - wolffish, wolf fish
    
3. Any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
   - siluriform fish

Derived forms: catfishes

Type of: blennioid, blennioid fish, freshwater fish, malacopterygian, soft-finned fish

Part of: Anarhichas, genus Anarhichas, order Siluriformes, Siluriformes

Encyclopedia: Catfish