catfish
- noun
- /ˈkætˌfɪʃ/
- Like a blackened catfish dinner!
- channel catfish
- catfish ponds
- catfish farm
Let's go check out the catfish rods that we set up last night.
- Let's go check out the catfish rods that we set up last night.
- So the first course, the main portion of the meal is Amazonian catfish and paired with the local craft beer.
- They had AI had a catfish filet man, you could taste the lake.
- I don't know, but someone said that it means catfish in an in a language.
- Herbs, edible flowers, red dye, honey, whey, tap water, farm raised catfish and latex.
- Well, so the catfish thread just for us just to finish that one off.
- And for a lot of Asian, for a lot of Asian, that's catfish.
Examples
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I ordered a delicious catfish fillet for dinner at the restaurant last night.
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I thought I might make some catfish enchiladas for tomorrow.
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The catfish just jumped right into your frying pan.
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We would camp on sandbars and cook catfish over a driftwood fire.
Fiction book (2002) -
The house specialty was fried catfish and hush puppies made with beer.
Fiction book (1993) -
The chef prepared a spicy catfish dish with a side of coleslaw.
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We caught a giant catfish while fishing at the lake during our summer vacation.
Synonyms
A small freshwater fish like a catfish with a wide flat head
A small fish with a thick body, broad flat head and whisker-like feelers near its mouth
A freshwater fish like a catfish that lives near river bottoms and has whisker-like feelers around its mouth
A large catfish with a wide flat head and a lower jaw that sticks out
A large catfish with bluish gray skin and a forked tail that lives in rivers like the Mississippi
A large catfish from US rivers and lakes that people often eat
A large freshwater fish with a flat head and long spoon-shaped snout for finding food in muddy water
A very large freshwater fish from European rivers that can grow over two meters
A fish with small whiskers that lives in the sea and is often not eaten
Compounds
A freshwater fish with whisker-like feelers common in North America and often eaten
A small fish with a thick body, broad flat head and whisker-like feelers near its mouth
A large catfish with bluish gray skin and a forked tail that lives in rivers like the Mississippi
A very large freshwater fish from European rivers that can grow over two meters
- Specialized
A large river fish with a flat head and a long pointed nose found in central United States
A large freshwater fish with a flat head and long spoon-shaped snout for finding food in muddy water
How Armored
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Catfish gets its name from the fish's long, whisker-like feelers that look like a cat's whiskers, so people simply called it 'catfish'. That's why a catfish is a fish with whisker-like feelers often found in rivers and eaten as food.