white cat
noun
variants: or
white catfish
Definition of white cat
: any of several North American freshwater catfishes (genus Ictalurus); especially : a catfish (I. catus) that is native to coastal streams of the eastern and southern U.S. and introduced in California and Nevada, is pale olive to bluish above and silvery below, and reaches a length of two feet
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