channel catfish

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   freshwater food fish common throughout central United States

   Synonymschannel catIctalurus punctatus

   Broadercatfish

   Narrowerblue catfish

Questions about channel catfish

What does channel catfish mean?

channel catfish means "freshwater food fish common throughout central United States".

What is another word for channel catfish?

Close synonyms include channel cat, Ictalurus punctatus. 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 channel catfish a common word?

channel 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.