catfish

noun

1. flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed

Similar word(s): mudcat

Definition categories: food

2. large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins

Similar word(s): wolffish

Definition categories: animal, blennioid

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

Definition categories: animal, malacopterygian