bullhead catfish

1. 1.

   any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States

   Synonymsbullhead

   Broadercatfish

   Narrowerhorned poutbrown bullhead

   Part ofAmeiurus

Questions about bullhead catfish

What does bullhead catfish mean?

bullhead catfish means "any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States".

What is another word for bullhead catfish?

Close synonyms include bullhead. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bullhead catfish a common word?

bullhead 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.