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Webster 1913 Edition
Siluroid
Si-lu′roid
,Noun.
[
Silurus
+ -oid
.] (Zool.)
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. Noun.
A siluroid fish.