1. (

• catfish ,
• mudcat

) flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed ;

2. (

• wolffish ,
• wolf_fish ,
• catfish ,

) large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins ;

3. (

• catfish ,
• siluriform_fish

) any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth ;