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SHEATFISH (sheatfishes)
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Irregular inflected form: sheatfishes
Dictionary entry overview: What does sheatfish mean?
• SHEATFISH (noun)
The noun SHEATFISH has 1 sense:
1. large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe
Familiarity information: SHEATFISH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
European catfish; sheatfish; Silurus glanis
Hypernyms ("sheatfish" is a kind of...):
silurid; silurid fish (Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin)
Holonyms ("sheatfish" is a member of...):
genus Silurus; Silurus (type genus of the Siluridae: catfishes)
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