gourami
/goo-rah-mee/US // gʊˈrɑ mi //UK // (ˈɡʊərəmɪ) //
古拉米,古拉美,古拉咪,古拉密
Definitions
n.名词 noun
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plural gou·ra·mi, gou·ra·mis.
- : a large, air-breathing, nest-building, freshwater Asiatic fish, Osphronemus goramy, used for food.
- : any of several small, air-breathing, nest-building Asiatic fishes of the genera Trichogaster, Colisa, and Trichopsis, often kept in aquariums.
Examples
The surgeon called it the gourami, and said that some successful attempts had been made to introduce the fish in American waters.
Achang called the fish the gourami, or something like that; but beyond this nothing was known about him.
A fish of Java, the Gourami (Osphronemus olfax), establishes an ovoid nest with the leaves of aquatic plants woven together.
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