Catfish Definition

kătfĭsh
catfishes
noun
catfishes
Any of an order (Siluriformes) of bony fishes with barbels, somewhat like a cat's whiskers, about the mouth and usually with a sharp spine in the dorsal and pectoral fins.
Webster's New World
Any of certain fishes of this group cooked as food.
Webster's New World
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verb
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Other Word Forms of Catfish

Noun

Singular:
catfish
Plural:
catfishes

Origin of Catfish

  • From cat +‎ fish. Likely so named for its prominent barbels like a cat's whiskers.

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  • From the 2010 documentary Catfish.

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Catfish Sentence Examples

  • I brought a pole, but I don't have any bait for catfish.

  • Other fish native to the waters of the state are the sturgeon, catfish, perch (locally called pike), buffalo fish, flathead and sucker.

  • Lunch was at a rustic little seafood place in Rogers called Catfish John's, and afterward she directed him to the War Eagle Mill.

  • The New York fisheries of Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Niagara and St Lawrence rivers yielded products in 1903 valued at $187,198 and consisting largely of pikeperch, herring, catfish, bullheads and sturgeon, and in 1902 there were commercial fisheries in sixteen interior lakes and rivers which yielded muscallonge, smelt, bullheads, pickerel, pike-perch and several other varieties having a total value of $87,897.

  • Whitefish, bass, trout and pickerel are an important food supply obtained from the waters of the lake, and some perch, catfish and sunfish are caught in the rivers and brooks.

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Words Starting With

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