anabas

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A genus of acanthopterygian fishes, type of the family Anabantidæ (which see).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Zoöl.) A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the type genus of the family Anabantidae; small fish that resemble perch