buffalo fish

noun

any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus : family Catostomidae (suckers)

Then the farmers go with a rush and the buffalo fish get scared.

Look, the finest buffalo fish weve taken this afternoon, Dick!

And now, I wonder what kind it is, one of those slippery catfish, or the strongly built buffalo fish.

A darkey caught a catfish to-day that weighed twenty pounds and one he called a buffalo fish that weighed ten pounds.

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