SILURIFORM FISH

 Dictionary entry overview: What does siluriform fish mean? 

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

1. any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILURIFORM FISH (noun)

Meaning:

Any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

siluriform fish; catfish

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

malacopterygian; soft-finned fish (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)

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

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

bullhead (any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States)

channel cat; channel catfish; Ictalurus punctatus (freshwater food fish common throughout central United States)

flathead catfish; goujon; mudcat; Pylodictus olivaris; shovelnose catfish; spoonbill catfish (large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw)

armored catfish (South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates)

sea catfish (any of numerous marine fishes most of which are mouthbreeders; not used for food)

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

order Siluriformes; Siluriformes (an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes)