flathead catfish

flat·head catfish

F0170900 (flăt′hĕd′)n. A large edible catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) of the central United States and northern Mexico, having a yellowish body with brown markings and a flat head with a protruding lower jaw. Also called yellow cat.

flat′head cat′fish

n. a yellow and brown catfish, Pylodictis olivaris, common in the central U.S., having a flattened head and a projecting lower jaw. Also called mudcat. [1940–45]

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flathead catfish - large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jawgoujon, Pylodictus olivaris, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish, mudcatsiluriform fish, catfish - any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouthgenus Pylodictus, Pylodictus - flathead catfishes

flathead catfish