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SHEATFISH (sheatfishes)

Dictionary entry overview: What does sheatfish mean?

• SHEATFISH (noun)
The noun SHEATFISH has 1 sense:

1. large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe

Familiarity information: SHEATFISH used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SHEATFISH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

European catfish; sheatfish; Silurus glanis

Hypernyms ("sheatfish" is a kind of...):

silurid; silurid fish (Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin)

Holonyms ("sheatfish" is a member of...):

genus Silurus; Silurus (type genus of the Siluridae: catfishes)

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