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 cat·fish /-ˌfɪʃ/
 鯰魚

 Cat·fish n. Zool. A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc.  This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.
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 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)]