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SILURID FISH

• SILURID FISH (noun)
The noun SILURID FISH has 1 sense:

1. Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin

Familiarity information: SILURID FISH used as a noun is very rare.

• SILURID FISH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

silurid; silurid fish

Hypernyms ("silurid fish" is a kind of...):

catfish; siluriform fish (any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "silurid fish"):

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)

Holonyms ("silurid fish" is a member of...):

family Siluridae; Siluridae (Old World catfishes)

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Useful links:
Definition of European catfish
Definition of Siluridae
Definition of Silurus glanis
Pronunciation of electric catfish
Definition of siluriform fish

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