noun
Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin
• Syn: ↑silurid fish
• Hypernyms: ↑catfish, ↑siluriform fish
• Hyponyms: ↑European catfish, ↑sheatfish, ↑Silurus glanis, ↑electric catfish, ↑Malopterurus electricus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Siluridae, ↑family Siluridae
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I. \\sə̇ˈlu̇rə̇d, sīˈ-\ adjective : of or relating to the Siluridae
II. noun
(-s)
: a catfish of the family Siluridae
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/si loor"id, suy-/, n.
1. any of numerous Old World freshwater fishes of the family Siluridae, comprising the catfishes.
adj.
2. belonging or pertaining to the family Siluridae.
[1890-95; < NL Siluridae name of the family, equiv. to Silur(us) genus name (L silurus a kind of fish < Gk sílouros) + -idae -ID2]
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silurid /si-looˈrid or -lūˈ/
noun
Any freshwater fish of the family Silūˈridae, including the European catfish, wels or sheatfish, Siluris glanis, having an elongated, slimy, scaleless body and a long anal fin (also adjective)
ORIGIN: L silūrus, from Gr silouros
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siluˈroid adjective and noun
Useful english dictionary. 2012.