silurid fish

silurid fish
noun
Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin
Syn: ↑silurid
Hypernyms: ↑catfish, ↑siluriform fish
Member Holonyms: ↑Siluridae, ↑family Siluridae

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