siluridae

English Thesaurus

1. Old World catfishes (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	fish family,
definition	:	any of various families of fish (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	silurid, silurid fish,
definition	:	Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	genus silurus, silurus,
definition	:	type genus of the Siluridae: catfishes (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	genus malopterurus, malopterurus,
definition	:	electric catfish (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	order siluriformes, siluriformes,
definition	:	an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes (noun.animal)