siluriform fish

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscatfish

   Broadersoft-finned fish

   Narrowersiluridbullheadchannel catfishflathead catfisharmored catfishsea catfish

   Part ofSiluriformes

Questions about siluriform fish

What does siluriform fish mean?

siluriform fish means "any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth".

What is another word for siluriform fish?

Close synonyms include catfish. 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 siluriform fish a common word?

siluriform fish 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.