bagres

Noun

bagre (plural bagres)

1. Any of various types of catfish, located along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas.
   • The bagre of California and Mexico, very distinct from that which Linnæus gave the name to, and classified among the sheat-fish, is without scales, with two large hairs pendent from the under lip, the tail split, and has six fins, among which is one large dorsal fin, two on the breast, two under...1869, John Ross Browne, Alexander Smith Taylor, William M. Gabb, Charles Melville Scammon, J. D. Hawks, John A. Veatch, Francesco Saverio Clavigero, A Sketch of the Settlement and Exploration of...