Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun catfish

3 senses of catfish

Sense 1
catfish, mudcat -- (flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed)
       => freshwater fish -- (flesh of fish from fresh water used as food)

Sense 2
wolffish, wolf fish, catfish -- (large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins)
       => blennioid fish, blennioid -- (elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins)

Sense 3
catfish, siluriform fish -- (any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth)
       => soft-finned fish, malacopterygian -- (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)