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ˈcat-fish
1. A name given to various fishes; particularly to:
a. The Anarrhicas or Wolf-fish.
b. Several species of Pimelodus, North American fresh-water fish, esp. P. catus, the common cat-fish;
†c. The Lophius or Fishing Frog.
d. Also applied to various species of fish in Australia, New Zealand, and Africa.
1620J. Mason Newfoundland (1887) 152 What should I speake of..crabbes, catfish, etc.? 1697W. Dampier Voy. I. 148 The Catfish is much like a Whiting..It hath a great wide Mouth, and certain small strings pointing out from each side of it, like Cats Whiskers. 1769Pennant Brit. Zool. III. 88 [Given as a synonym for the greater dogfish]. 1773Williamson in Phil. Trans. LXV. 96 Its head was flat and its mouth wide, like that of a cat-fish. 1803Sibbald Hist. Fife 121 (Jam.) Lupus marinus..our fishers call it the sea-cat, or cat-fish. 1817–8Cobbett Resid. U.S. (1822) 286 Saw a cat-fish in the market, just caught out of the river by a hook and line, 4 feet long and eighty pounds weight. 1834G. Bennett Wanderings N.S.W. I. 343 The ‘Cat-fish’, (Silurus,) said to have the power of stinging with the tentaculae or feelers, which pend from about the external part of the mouth,..and several species of bream, were caught in..the splendid harbour of Port Jackson. 1851J. Henderson Excurs. N.S.W. II. 207 The Cat-fish, which I have frequently caught in the McLeay, is a large and very ugly animal. 1864J. T. Baines Explor. S.W. Africa i. 3 Beyond was a broad flat, covered with cat, dog and other mud-frequenting fish. 1871Cape Monthly Mag. II. 135 A most horrible creature called a ‘catfish’, but which ought more properly to have been named ‘a sea devil’,..as it was all arms and legs, and huge goggle-eyed head. 1878Daily News 16 Sept. 3/7 A large catfish..was placed in the tank, whereupon the bass immediately combined their forces and commenced an attack on the intruder. 1897Parker & Haswell Text-bk. Zool. II. 212 The Cat-fishes (Siluridæ). 1900H. A. Bryden Anim. Africa 196 When..African rivers dry up, there is nothing left for the Cat-fish but to burrow in the mud. 1947K. H. Barnard Pict. Guide S. Afr. Fishes iii. 59 The best known South African river Cat-fish is the Mud-Barbel or Platkop Barger (Clarias mossambicus). 1963P. H. Greenwood Norman's Hist. Fishes (ed. 2) xvi. 284 The only fishes of the order Ostariophysi in the Australian region are certain freshwater genera and species of Cat-fishes. These belong to two families (Ariidae; Plotosidae)... The characteristic African families of..Cat-fishes (Clariidae, Mochocidae, Amphiliidae, etc.).
2. The cuttle-fish or other cephalopod.
1678Phillips, Catfish, a sort of Fish in some parts of the West Indies, so called from the Round-head, and large glaring Eyes, by which they are discovered in the Concavities of the Rocks. 1758Baker in Phil. Trans. L. 785 Sea Polypi are frequent in the Meditteranean..A different species..came from the West Indies, where it is called a Cat-fish. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss. (E.D.S.) Cat-fish, a cuttle fish, Sepia officinalis. |