Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various freshwater fishes of Southeast Asia of the families Osphronemidae and sometimes Belontiidae, capable of breathing air and popular in home aquariums.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
goramy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A very largo East Indian freshwater fish (
Osphromenus gorami ), extensively reared in artificial ponds in tropical countries, and highly valued as a food fish. Many unsuccessful efforts have been made to introduce it into Southern Europe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
edible fresh-water fish of the Osphronemidae family.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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They are quite happy milling about, around the koi, gourami and school of tiger barbs we have.
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A pair of gourami passed by it, disturbing its concentration, and it darted off behind a group of three or four water plants twisting gently in the clouds of rising bubbles from the aerator.
The Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1980
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Achang called the fish the gourami, or something like that; but beyond this nothing was known about him.
Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Oliver Optic 1859
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The surgeon called it the gourami, and said that some successful attempts had been made to introduce the fish in American waters.
Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Oliver Optic 1859
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And there are several different species of gouramis, but one of my favorite species is called the kissing gourami.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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And they have elongated pectoral fins that almost look like antennae, but the kissing gourami does not have these.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Go to Todd in Cleveland, who's going to talk about the kissing gourami, right, Todd?
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Sphaerichthys selatanensis - Crossband chocolate gourami
WN.com - Articles related to “Healthy” chocolate bar contains water instead of fat! 2010
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Jack, being Jack, filled the 335cm/11 'long garage with a 335 x 60 x 60cm/11' x 2 'x 2' tank and stocked it with Oscars, Giant gourami, Silver arowana and Ocellated garfish.
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Sphaerichthys selatanensis - Crossband chocolate gourami
WN.com - Articles related to Chocolate bar for fat conscious people 2010
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