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Meanings of catfish in English

Catalan
barb caní

Large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins.

barb caní
Portuguese
bagre
Catalan
barb

Flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed.

bagre
Synonyms
Examples for "mudcat"
Examples for "mudcat"
1
If Old Moses decided to grab their bait, they wouldn't be sitting so calmly waiting for a mudcat.
Boy’s Life
2
Presently he jerked, and a yellow mudcat rose to the surface, fighting desperately for his life, and Dan and Snowball yelled crazily.
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
3
Catch him up in a net, put him in a big glass tank somewhere like an overgrown mudcat. Mr. Sculley frowned and shook his head.
Boy’s Life
4
Hugh McVey left the town of Mudcat Landing in early September of the year eighteen eighty-six.
Poor White: A Novel
5
What's left after the crawdadders and mudcats have their way with that boy will bob up somewheres downriver.
Serena
Portuguese
peixe gato
Catalan
siluriforme
Spanish
siluriformes

Any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth.

peixe gato
Usage of catfish in English
1
The trust had already done work trapping and controlling catfish, she said.
Radio NZ
2
I know about catfish and I don't believe a word of it.
How the soldier repairs the gramophone
3
Besides, I doubt if there are any catfish in those Montana rivers.
A Winter Haunting
4
Grandpa skinned the catfish, and Don scraped the scales from the perch.
A Hive of Busy Bees
5
I kept thinking about him as I cleaned the catfish for breakfast.
River girl
6
She'd also called me brave... unless she was talking to the catfish.
The Lightning Thief
7
To twelve small catfish allow a pound and a half of ham.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
8
I call from the river Drina as I wrestle with a catfish.
How the soldier repairs the gramophone
9
One catfish does not make a creek nor one hero a nation.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12
10
But trying to catch a big catfish with his hands was ridiculous.
Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's
11
Marianne here set down her catfish bone and burst forth with indignation-
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
12
A catfish the size of my stepfather lurched away into the gloom.
The Lightning Thief
13
It revealed highly conserved chromosomal distribution between yellow catfish and channel catfish.
Pubmed
14
West, strangling, gasped for air, as does a catfish on the bank.
Man-Size
15
The grasshopper itself just tasted crunchy, like the tailbones of a catfish.
Lonesome dove
16
Here and there were ragged flanges, extrusions like catfish whiskers, like fins.
The Scar
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United States of America
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