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gourami [goo-rah-mee] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun, plural (especially collectively) gou·ra·mi, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) 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. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of gourami 1875–80; Malay (Java dial.) gurami Javanese graméh Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for gourami Historical Examples of gourami
A fish of Java, the Gourami (Osphronemus olfax), establishes an ovoid nest with the leaves of aquatic plants woven together.
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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.
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Achang called the fish the gourami, or something like that; but beyond this nothing was known about him.
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British Dictionary definitions for gourami gourami noun plural -mi or -mis a large SE Asian labyrinth fish, Osphronemus goramy, used for food and (when young) as an aquarium fish any of various other labyrinth fishes, such as Helostoma temmincki (kissing gourami), many of which are brightly coloured and popular aquarium fishes Word Origin for gourami from Malay gurami 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 Word Origin and History for gourami n.
type of freshwater fish, 1878, from Malay gurami.
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