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Meanings of catfish in inglés

catalán
barb caní

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

barb caní
portugués
bagre
catalán
barb

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

bagre
portugués
peixe gato
catalán
siluriforme
español
siluriformes

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

siluriformes
Usage of catfish in inglés
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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español
siluriformes
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Catfish across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common