noun (n)

• flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed(noun.food)

  Synonym:
  mudcat
  

  source: wordnet30
• large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins(noun.animal)

  Synonym:
  wolf fish, wolffish
  

  source: wordnet30
• any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth(noun.animal)

  Synonym:
  siluriform fish
  

  source: wordnet30
• A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.(noun)

  source: webster1913