catfish
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
Types & categories
- freshwater fish hypernym
Sense 2 noun
large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
Types & categories
- blennioid fish hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Anarhichas member holonym
Sense 3 noun
any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
Types & categories
- soft-finned fish hypernym
- silurid hyponym
- bullhead catfish hyponym
- channel catfish hyponym
- flathead catfish hyponym
- armored catfish hyponym
- sea catfish hyponym
Parts & wholes
- Siluriformes member holonym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | freshwater fish |
| 2 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Anarhichas |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | blennioid fish |
| 3 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Siluriformes |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | soft-finned fish |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | silurid |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | bullhead catfish |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | channel catfish |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | flathead catfish |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | armored catfish |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | sea catfish |