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