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SHEATFISH
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Irregular inflected form: sheatfishes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe
Synonyms:
European catfish; sheatfish; Silurus glanis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sheatfish" 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 ("sheatfish" is a member of...):
genus Silurus; Silurus (type genus of the Siluridae: catfishes)