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SILURID
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin
Synonyms:
silurid; silurid fish
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("silurid" 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 "silurid"):
European catfish; sheatfish; Silurus glanis (large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe)
electric catfish; Malopterurus electricus (freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ)
Holonyms ("silurid" is a member of...):
family Siluridae; Siluridae (Old World catfishes)
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