BULLHEAD CATFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bullhead catfish mean? 

• BULLHEAD CATFISH (noun)
  The noun BULLHEAD CATFISH has 1 sense:

1. any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States

  Familiarity information: BULLHEAD CATFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BULLHEAD CATFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bullhead; bullhead catfish

Hypernyms ("bullhead catfish" is a kind of...):

catfish; siluriform fish (any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bullhead catfish"):

Ameiurus Melas; horned pout; hornpout; pout (catfish common in eastern United States)

brown bullhead (freshwater catfish of eastern United States)

Holonyms ("bullhead catfish" is a member of...):

Ameiurus; genus Ameiurus (type genus of the Ameiuridae: bullhead catfishes)