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anabas
[ an-uh-bas ]
noun
- any small fish of the genus Anabas, of ponds and swamps in Africa and southeastern Asia.
anabas
/ ˈænəˌbæs /
noun
- any of several labyrinth fishes of the genus Anabas, esp the climbing fish
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of anabas1
C19: from New Latin, from Greek anabainein to go up; see anabaena
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Example Sentences
The most celebrated example of this faculty, however, is the climbing perch (Anabas scandens) of India.
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These labyrinthal water-chambers are particularly numerous and complicated in the Anabas just mentioned.
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Like Anabas, the climbing perch, it possesses a suprabranchial accessory respiratory organ.
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Thus, certain fishes related to the wonderful Anabas—the perch that climbs trees!
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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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