silurus glanis

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   large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe

   SynonymsEuropean catfishsheatfish

   Broadersilurid

   Part ofSilurus

Questions about silurus glanis

What does silurus glanis mean?

silurus glanis means "large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe".

What is another word for silurus glanis?

Close synonyms include European catfish, sheatfish. 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 silurus glanis a common word?

silurus glanis 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.