armored catfish

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   South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates

   Broadercatfish

   Part ofLaricariidae

Questions about armored catfish

What does armored catfish mean?

armored catfish means "South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates".

Is armored catfish a common word?

armored catfish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.