[
UK
/kˈætfɪʃ/
]
[ US /ˈkætˌfɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈkætˌfɪʃ/ ]
NOUN
- large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
- flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed
- any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
How To Use catfish In A Sentence
- North African catfish live in a variety of freshwater environments, including quiet waters like lakes, ponds, and pools.
- It's a delicate white fish that's less fishy and less oily than the kind of catfish that usually gets drowned in chili powder.
- Also, I know you disdain catfish, but there's certainly a subset of guys who are hard-core and pretty cultish about catching monster blues and flatheads. Which Fishing Cult is the Most Insane?
- To introduce desirable genes from blue catfish into channel catfish through introgression, a genetic linkage map is helpful.
- Many of you will probably be thinking of going over to Spain to sample the carp fishing or to pursue catfish or perhaps even the various barbel forms.
- Kim and Coquette spent their days curled around each other in sunny spots like Siamese wreaths, and Mom’s Persian Ming Ming spent hers down at the water hole catching barble—plump catfish that tasted of mud. Rainbow’s End
- Someone raised in New York would be much more likely to agree that catfish and hominy are Southern foods.
- Unsweetened iced tea, fried catfish, hold the french fries and corn bread.
- Blue catfish populations are considered relatively healthy at the center of its range.
- Once she swaps stilettos for cowboy boots, scoffs on catfish and makes plum jam with her momma, you suspect that her and Andrew are never destined to make it down the aisle.