siluroid

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

A silure.

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.

Alternative form of silurid.