electric catfish

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   freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ

   SynonymsMalopterurus electricus

   Broadersilurid

   Part ofMalopterurus

Questions about electric catfish

What does electric catfish mean?

electric catfish means "freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ".

What is another word for electric catfish?

Close synonyms include Malopterurus electricus. 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 electric catfish a common word?

electric 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.