Anabas

noun

An·​a·​bas

ˈanəbəs,

-ˌbas

: a genus (the type of a family Anabantidae) comprising small perchlike freshwater spiny-finned fishes of southeastern Asia and Africa and often being placed with a few related fishes in a separate suborder of the Percomorphi see climbing perch

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Greek, aorist participle of anabainein

First Known Use

1823, in the meaning defined above

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