Množina: catfish
1. Any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth; SYN. siluriform fish.
2. Flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed; SYN. mudcat.
3. Fish belonging to the order Siluriformes, in which barbels (feelers) on the head are well-developed, so giving a resemblance to the whiskers of a cat. Catfishes are found worldwide, mainly but not exclusively in fresh water, and are plentiful in South America.
4. The E European giant catfish or wels Silurus glanis grows to 1.5 m/5 ft long or more. It has been introduced to several places in Britain. The unrelated marine wolffish Anarhicas lupus, a deep-sea relative of the blenny, growing 1.2 m/4 ft long, is sometimes called a catfish.
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