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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
              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
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                    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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