siluriforme

Definitions of siluriforme
  1. noun
    any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
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    types:
    silúrido
    Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin
    siluro
    large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe
    type of:
    malacopterigio
    any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
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