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BULLHEAD CATFISH
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States
Synonyms:
bullhead; bullhead catfish
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bullhead catfish" 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 "bullhead catfish"):
Ameiurus Melas; horned pout; hornpout; pout (catfish common in eastern United States)
brown bullhead (freshwater catfish of eastern United States)
Holonyms ("bullhead catfish" is a member of...):
Ameiurus; genus Ameiurus (type genus of the Ameiuridae: bullhead catfishes)