pangasius


pan·ga·si·us

P5045550 (păng-gä′sē-əs)n. See basa.
[New Latin Pangasius, genus name, from Bengali pāṅgās, basa, perhaps ultimately from Middle Indic paṅka-, mud, from Sanskrit paṅkaḥ; perhaps akin to Old English fenn, fen, and German feucht, damp.]