CHANNEL CAT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Freshwater food fish common throughout central United States

Synonyms:

channel cat; channel catfish; Ictalurus punctatus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("channel cat" is a kind of...):

catfish; siluriform fish (any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "channel cat"):

blue cat; blue catfish; blue channel cat; blue channel catfish (a large catfish of the Mississippi valley)

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