SEA CATFISH

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of numerous marine fishes most of which are mouthbreeders; not used for food

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sea catfish" 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 "sea catfish"):

crucifix fish (sea catfish of the Caribbean area)

Holonyms ("sea catfish" is a member of...):

Ariidae; family Ariidae (sea catfishes)

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