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Definition of Channel cat
1. Noun. Freshwater food fish common throughout central United States.
Generic synonyms: Catfish, Siluriform Fish
Specialized synonyms: Blue Cat, Blue Catfish, Blue Channel Cat, Blue Channel Catfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Channel Cat
Literary usage of Channel cat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"The channel cat has frequently been confused with the preceding species, and its
geographic distribution and size have not been definitely made out. ..."
2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1885)
"Silver Cat, Blue Cat, channel cat, White Cat. Quite common, and much prized as
a food ... Spotted channel cat. Not so common as preceding. Larger streams. ..."
3. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States: Including by David Starr Jordan (1904)
"Slaty bluish, growing darker with age ; body stouter than in the channel cat,
the head broader, lower, and more depressed, the mouth wider, the caudal less ..."
4. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"Unlike most of the catfishes the channel-cat is found only in clear or swift ...
The angler who has " tackled," in a literal sense, a channel-cat of five ..."
5. Bass, Pike, Perch and Other Game Fishes of America by James Alexander Henshall (1919)
"Unlike most of the catfishes the channel-cat is ... The angler who has " tackled,"
in a literal sense, a channel-cat of five pounds, on a light rod, ..."
6. Final Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1890)
"channel cat of the Potomac. Body slender, compressed ; head conical; ...
Common channel cat. Blue Cat. White Cat, &c. Eye large; anal fin short; ..."
7. Elementary Lessons in Zoology: A Guide in Studying Animal Life and Structure by James George Needham (1895)
"THE channel cat (after Todd, by permission). Description. — The channel cat is
abundant in all our rivers and small streams. It has the characteristic ..."
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