CHANNEL CATFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does channel catfish mean? 

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

1. freshwater food fish common throughout central United States

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANNEL CATFISH (noun)

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Meaning:

Freshwater food fish common throughout central United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

channel cat; channel catfish; Ictalurus punctatus

Hypernyms ("channel 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "channel catfish"):

blue cat; blue catfish; blue channel cat; blue channel catfish (a large catfish of the Mississippi valley)