ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ictalurus punctatus mean? 

• ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS (noun)
  The noun ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS has 1 sense:

1. freshwater food fish common throughout central United States

  Familiarity information: ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS (noun)

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Meaning:

Freshwater food fish common throughout central United States

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

channel cat; channel catfish; Ictalurus punctatus

Hypernyms ("Ictalurus punctatus" 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 "Ictalurus punctatus"):

blue cat; blue catfish; blue channel cat; blue channel catfish (a large catfish of the Mississippi valley)