SILURID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silurid mean? 

• SILURID (noun)
  The noun SILURID has 1 sense:

1. Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin

  Familiarity information: SILURID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILURID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

silurid; silurid fish

Hypernyms ("silurid" 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 "silurid"):

European catfish; sheatfish; Silurus glanis (large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe)

electric catfish; Malopterurus electricus (freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ)

Holonyms ("silurid" is a member of...):

family Siluridae; Siluridae (Old World catfishes)