Definition of Silurid fish

1. Noun. Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin.

Exact synonyms: Silurid
Generic synonyms: Catfish, Siluriform Fish
Group relationships: Family Siluridae, Siluridae
Specialized synonyms: European Catfish, Sheatfish, Silurus Glanis, Electric Catfish, Malopterurus Electricus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Silurid Fish

siltations
silted
silted up
siltier
siltiest
silting
silts
siltstone
siltstones
siltuximab
silty
silumin
silure
silurian
silurid
silurid fish (current term)
siluridan
siluridans
silurids
siluriform fish
silurist
silurists
siluroid
siluroidei
siluroids
silurus
silva
silvae
silvan
silvanite

Literary usage of Silurid fish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The North-west Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes by Thomas Whiffen (1915)
"Orton mentions this fish, which according to him is " a slender silurid fish (Van- dellia) " but remarks that he never met " with one confirmatory case. ..."

2. A Naturalist on Lake Victoria: With an Account of Sleeping Sickness and the by Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter (1920)
"On Ziro Isle, in 1919, I saw the remains of a very large silurid fish, which had evidently been dragged up on to a rock high above water by one or more ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... flattened head it is paralleled by two other vertebrates only, which, curiously, inhabit the same parts of South America, viz. the silurid fish ..."

4. Fasciculi Malayenses: Anthropological and Zoological Results of an by Nelson Annandale, Herbert C. Robinson (1903)
"From the mouth of a silurid fish, from pool in rice-fields.' In my previous description I have said that the anterior legs are unarmed, but this statement ..."

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