Associations to the word «Ictalurus»

Wiktionary

ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Ictaluridae   — the channel catfish, native to eastern and central North America.

Dictionary definition

ICTALURUS, noun. Channel catfishes.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats