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)]