ARMORED CATFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does armored catfish mean? 

• ARMORED CATFISH (noun)
  The noun ARMORED CATFISH has 1 sense:

1. South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates

  Familiarity information: ARMORED CATFISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMORED CATFISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("armored catfish" 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)

Holonyms ("armored catfish" is a member of...):

family Laricariidae; Laricariidae (armored catfish)