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stinging catfish

stinging catfish noun: heteropneustes fossilis, a catfish of India and Southeast Asia.

Noun

stinging catfish (plural stinging catfish or stinging catfishes)

  1. Heteropneustes fossilis, a catfish of India and Southeast Asia.
    • Heteropneustes spp., the stinging catfishes of family Heteropneustidae, are distributed in freshwater habitats of Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam (Berra, 2007).2013 December, M. Shahadat Hossain, Subrata Sarker, S.M. Sharifuzzaman, Sayedur Rahman Chowdhury, “New species of stinging catfish Heteropneustes nani (Siluriformes: Heteropneustidae) from Noakhali...

stinging catfish meaning in Malayalam

stinging catfish in Malayalam

fish
കാരി kāri

Forms of stinging catfish

pluralstinging catfish
pluralstinging catfishes

Questions about stinging catfish

What does stinging catfish mean?
Stinging catfish means heteropneustes fossilis, a catfish of India and Southeast Asia.
What is stinging catfish in Malayalam?
Stinging catfish in Malayalam is കാരി (kāri). See Stinging catfish meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is stinging catfish?
Stinging catfish is a noun.
What is the plural of stinging catfish?
The plural of stinging catfish is stinging catfish.

Words near stinging catfish in the dictionary

  1. stingiest
  2. stingily
  3. stinginess
  4. stinginesses
  5. stinging
  6. stinging catfish
  7. stinging catfishes
  8. stinging nettle
  9. stinging nettles
  10. stinging out
  11. stingingly

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