EUROPEAN CATFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does European catfish mean? 

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

1. large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe

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

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• EUROPEAN CATFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

European catfish; sheatfish; Silurus glanis

Hypernyms ("European catfish" 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 ("European catfish" is a member of...):

genus Silurus; Silurus (type genus of the Siluridae: catfishes)