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catfishes
     See {catfish}

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)]