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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to the Siluridæ, or having their characters; being or resembling a cattish or sheat-fish; siluridan.
  • noun A silure.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Siluroidei, or Nematognathi, an order of fishes including numerous species, among which are the American catfishes and numerous allied fresh-water species of the Old World, as the sheatfish (Silurus glanis) of Europe.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative form of silurid.

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