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anabas

/an-uh-bas/US // ˈæn əˌbæs //UK // (ˈænəˌbæs) //

阿纳巴斯,阿那巴,安纳巴斯

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any small fish of the genus Anabas, of ponds and swamps in Africa and southeastern Asia.

Examples

  • The most celebrated example of this faculty, however, is the climbing perch (Anabas scandens) of India.

  • These labyrinthal water-chambers are particularly numerous and complicated in the Anabas just mentioned.

  • Like Anabas, the climbing perch, it possesses a suprabranchial accessory respiratory organ.

  • Thus, certain fishes related to the wonderful Anabas—the perch that climbs trees!

  • The fish which the moodliar sent to me proved to be an Anabas, and closely resembles the Perca scandens of Daldorf.

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