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ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Freshwater food fish common throughout central United States
Synonyms:
channel cat; channel catfish; Ictalurus punctatus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Ictalurus punctatus" 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 "Ictalurus punctatus"):
blue cat; blue catfish; blue channel cat; blue channel catfish (a large catfish of the Mississippi valley)