EUROPEAN CATFISH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe

Synonyms:

European catfish; sheatfish; Silurus glanis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("European catfish" is a kind of...):

silurid; silurid fish (Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin)

Holonyms ("European catfish" is a member of...):

genus Silurus; Silurus (type genus of the Siluridae: catfishes)