catfishes
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noun, plural ( especially collectively ) cat·fish ( especially referring to two or more kinds or species ) cat·fish·es.
1.
any of the numerous fishes of the order or suborder Nematognathi (or Siluroidei), characterized by barbels around the mouth and the absence of scales.
2.
a wolffish of the genus Anarhichas.
3.
any of various other fishes having a fancied resemblance to a cat.
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| —n , pl -fish, -fishes | |
| 1. | any of numerous mainly freshwater teleost fishes having whisker-like barbels around the mouth, esp the silurids of Europe and Asia and the horned pouts of North America |
| 2. | another name for wolffish |
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