catfish
n 1: flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States;
often farmed [syn: mudcat]
2: large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong
teeth and no pelvic fins [syn: wolffish, wolf fish]
3: any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of
Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers
around the mouth [syn: siluriform fish]
[also: catfishes (pl)]