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climbing fish

noun

  1. an Asian labyrinth fish, Anabas testudineus, that resembles a perch and can travel over land on its spiny gill covers and pectoral fins
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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There are tree-climbing fish, and pygmy men, mountains higher and rivers greater than any yet discovered.

After a while, Luke said he thought it must be one of the climbing fish described by Agassiz, and that it had gone up a tree.

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