ELECTRIC CATFISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electric catfish mean? 

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

1. freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRIC CATFISH (noun)

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Meaning:

Freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

electric catfish; Malopterurus electricus

Hypernyms ("electric catfish" is a kind of...):

silurid; silurid fish (Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin)

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

genus Malopterurus; Malopterurus (electric catfish)