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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. dial. G.

scheid

schaid

schaiden

(Zool.)

A European siluroid fish (

Silurus glanis

) allied to the cat-fishes. It is the largest fresh-water fish of Europe, sometimes becoming six feet or more in length. See

sheatfish ‎(plural sheatfishes or sheatfish)

The wels catfish (Silurus glanis), a catfish, the largest freshwater fish in Europe.
Other catfish of genus Silurus
Any of the species in family Siluridae, including
1. Wallago species, found in the Danube and other Eastern European rivers.
2. Micronema species
3. Phalacronotus species

fish of the genus Silurus