Meanings
nounchannel cat (plural channel cats)
plural channel cats
- alternativeAlternative form of channel catfish.
She missed the fish diet of her own country, and twice every summer she sent the boys to the river, twenty miles to the southward, to fish for channel cat.
1913, Willa Cather, chapter 2, in O Pioneers!
Synonyms & antonyms
nounfreshwater food fish common throughout central United States
Similar
channel catfishIctalurus punctatus
Broader
catfishsiluriform fish
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