What is "catfishes"

n. (plural of catfish English)

See catfish

1. n. flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed [syn: mudcat]

2. large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins [syn: wolffish, wolf fish]

3. any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth [syn: siluriform fish]

4. [also: catfishes (pl)]