SILUROID

Si‐lu″roid (?), n. [[Silurus + -oid.]] (Zoöl.) 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. — n. A siluroid fish.